Linda Anderson Jonggarda Australian, b. 1962

Linda Tjunkata Allen Anderson was born in Papunya in 1962, and is daughter of famousPapunya Tula painter and actor Nosepeg Tjunkata Tjupurrula andMantua Napanangka,another of the early Western Desert painters. She is a respected community elder whoworked for many years at Papunya School and Community Council and was the inauguralSecretary of Papunya Tjupi Arts. Linda paints Karrkururrutintjta Tjukurrpa (Lake McDonaldDreaming), which is of a lake south-west of Kintore, NT. This story was passed on to her fromher aunty Narputta Jugadai Nangala, whom she watched paint when she was a young girl,and who was the sister of Linda’s stepfather Bill Manaina Tjangala. Linda’s painting style hasbeen heavily influenced by the birds eye view of the landscape she saw frequently from thewindow of a plane when travelling between MacquarieUniversity, Sydney and Papunya duringher studies. She uses doƫng to represent charred trees and grass after bushfires as well asraindrops that create muddy terrain. She uses line work to represent sections of the dried uplake and different colours for the beautiful flowers which appear after big rain. Her work ishighlysought after and she has been exhibited widely across Australia.