Lisa Multa
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Lisa Multa

Australia • 1975

Biography

Lisa Multa is an Australian Aboriginal artist of the Luritja people, born in 1975 and living in the Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji) Aboriginal community in the central Australian desert. She is part of the Ikuntji Aboriginal Artists Cooperative at Haasts Bluff.

Lisa Multa is the younger sister of traditional guardian and Aboriginal lawman Douglas Multa, and acclaimed artists Alison Multa and Patricia Multa. Lisa grew up with her family at Kungkayunti (Browns Bore), a substation located 1.5 hours southwest of Haasts Bluff. Lisa was born at Papunya Clinic in 1975, the closest clinic to Kungkayunti at the time. Kungkayunti is the ancestral land of Lisa's father, Joe Tjakamarra Multa, and her mother, Magdelena Multa Napaltjarri, is from Haasts Bluff.

Lisa began painting with the Ikuntji Artists' Cooperative in 2007, when she saw her two older sisters painting there. She explains that when she paints, she likes to think about her own connection to her ancestral land, focusing on a bird's-eye view of the tali tali (sand hills) at Kungkayunti, which she expresses in varied colors.

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