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Kngwarreye, Emily Kame, b. 1910
One of the best known desert artists and a senior woman in Utopia (NT), Kngwarreye's work is distinctive for its expressive abstract style. The recipient ...
Thorpe, Alice, b. 1914
Weaver, was born in the Lake Boga district of Victoria in 1914.
McKenzie, Queenie, b. 1915
Queenie McKenzie's career as an artist began in her later years as she painted stories from her life and country, including records of massacres of ...
Hart, Connie, b. 1917
Highly regarded Gunditjmara basket weaver and community elder who began weaving in her 60s and facilitated the regeneration of localised Victorian Indigenous weaving practices. Self-taught ...
Napaltjarri, Milliga, b. 1920
A Kukatja artist who began painting for Warlayirti Artists in 1989.
Napurrula, Lorna, b. 1924
As a previous ceremonial painter, Lorna began dot-style painting on canvas in 1986 and soon developed her own unique style which became increasingly free, abstract ...
Liddle, Bessie, b. 1927
Liddle was born near the southern border of Hermannsburg. Hermannsburg provided much needed relief in times of drought or need, and it was at the ...
Napanangka, Gladys, b. 1930
Senior Luritja artist who lived in Papunya, she initially assisted her second husband, Johnny Warangkula, on his canvases. Her work is in the collection of ...
Napurrula, Molly, b. 1930
One of the senior women at Willowra for the dancing, where she always paints up with the Damper Seed designs - or sometimes Snake Dreaming. ...
Daniels, Dolly Nampijinpa, b. 1931
A member of Warlukurlangu Artists since its inception, and co-chairperson of the association in the late 1980s. Since her involvement in the community's first exhibition ...
Hargraves, Lila Nungarrayi, b. 1933
Warlpiri artist from Lajamanu who commenced painting in 1986. She worked independently and sometimes with her daughter, Jennie Hargraves.
Gallagher, Carol Napangardi, b. 1935
Born c. 1935 at Larlkapura, north of Yuendumu in Mudbra country. She is Mubra/Warlpiri and responsible for a Women Dreaming and a Seed (Lukarrara) Dreaming.
Bostock, Euphemia, b. 1936
Bostock was a founding member of Boomalli Aboriginal art cooperative in 1987, for which she designed the logo. Her artistic career has included printmaking, textile ...
Kngwarreye, Lily, b. 1937
Alyawarre speaker and senior woman at Arawerre (in the north of Utopia), Northern Territory. A skilled batik artist and painter, her work is in the ...
Petersen, Maudie Nungarrayi, b. 1937
A Luritja speaker from Mt Liebig, Maudie Peterson transferred the painting skills she learnt decorating coolamons and boomerangs onto works on canvas in the mid ...
Petyarre, Kathleen, b. 1938
After first working in batik, Kwementyaye (Kathleen) Petyarre turned to painting in 1987. Her precise paintings of her country and her culture led to her ...
Miller, Liddy Nampijinpa, b. 1940
Warlpiri painter, paints Ngapa, Yujuku and Watiyawamu Dreamings.
Nampijinpa, Peggy, b. 1940
Warlpiri artist who learnt to paint originally for ceremonial purposes, body paintings and dancing boards (nulla nullas). Has lived all her life in the Willowra ...
Patterson, Nellie Nungarrayi, b. 1943
A Pitjantjatjara speaker, Nellie began painting in 1986, selling her work through Maruku Arts and Crafts at Uluru.
Hector, Lucy Nangala, b. 1945
Warlpiri artist who particpated in the Traditional Painting Course in Lajamanu in 1986. Her work is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.