Ininti at Muruntji (Ininti à Muruntji), 2023

Patricia Multa  

Patricia Multa is an Australian Aboriginal artist of the Luritja people, born in 1973 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, where she has been painting since 2006.

She is the younger sister of traditional owner and lawyer Douglas Multa and renowned artist Alison Multa. Her two younger sisters, Lisa and Benita, also paint. Patricia grew up with her family at Kungkayunti (Browns Bore), a substation 1.5 hours' drive south/west of Haasts Bluff. Kungkayunti is the country (ancestral land) of her father, Joe Tjakamarra Multa, and her mother, Magdelena Multa Napaltjari, is from Haasts Bluff. Patricia attended Yirara College in Alice Springs from 1986 to 1988, where she was a boarder, before returning to Haasts Bluff, where she has lived ever since.

Patricia began painting in the late 1990s and has worked with the Ikuntji Artists Cooperative since 2006. Patricia is married to Patrick Nolan, who also paints. Their daughter, Virgillia Multa, is an emerging artist with the Ikuntji Artists Cooperative.

She began by painting her Bush Fire Dreaming and Kungkayunti Women Dancing. Today, her paintings primarily depict the bush seeds and flowers of the Ininti trees at Muruntji, west of Kungkayunti.

In her work, she experiments with color and movement using fine brushstrokes, and is renowned for her shimmering works with swirling patterns celebrating the nuances of her ancestral land throughout the seasons.

His works are included in numerous collections in Australia, such as the South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, and the Richard and Harriett England Collection, Sydney, NSW.