Makinti Napanangka (1930 - 2011) was a Pintupi-

speaking Indigenous Australian artist from

Australia's Western Desert region.

Makinti Napanangka began painting Contemporary

Indigenous Australian art at Kintore in the mid-

1990s, encouraged by a community art project.

Interest in her work developed quickly, and she is

now represented in most significant Australian

public art galleries.

Working in synthetic polymer on linen or canvas,

Makinti's paintings primarily take as their subjects

a rockhole site, Lupul, and an indigenous story (or

"dreaming") about two sisters, known as Kungka

Kutjarra.