Ningura Napurrula (c.1938 - 2013) was a Pintupi-speaking

Indigenous Australian artist from the Western Desert,

whose work was internationally acclaimed.

It was through her husband, Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi's

painting that Napurrula first began work as an artist,

supporting the production of his work, alongside his two

other wives.

In 1995, Napurrula joined the Kintore/Haasts Bluff women's

painting project. Here she developed her signature style of

diachrome patterns, with occasional use of colour. After her

husband's death in 1998, the volume of paintings she

produced increased.

The palette she used and the way the paint is layered on

the canvas is seen as reminiscent of how body paint is used

by women in ceremonial activities.