Lorna Brown Napanangka

This artist was born in Haasts Bluff around 1962. Her mother worked in Papunya while she was still a child and she went to school with a certain Geoffrey Bardon as a teacher… the same one who would be at the origin of the Aboriginal art movement in the Central Desert in 1971. Her aunt is the famous artist Pansy Napangardi, one of the first female artists, and her husband Bobby West Tjupurrula, a painter who has gained prominence in recent years. She has been painting since the end of the 1990s. Her very rich, very complex style, for an artist living in Kiwirrkurra, contrasts with the production of other artists of the Western Desert. Success quickly followed with two solo exhibitions organized by a prestigious gallery.