Winnie Nakamarra Pintupi/NT, b. 1961

Winnie (Bernadette) Nakamarra was born in a hospital in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in 1961. She is the daughter of world-renowned Papunya Tula artist Makinti Napanangka and Nyukuti Tjupurrula, the older brother of Nosepeg Tjupurrula. Following the establishment of Walungurru (Kintore Community) during the homeland’s movement, Winnie and her family returned to their traditional Country.

Winnie often paints the site Lupulgna, the place where her mother first encountered settler-Australians on camels as a young woman. Lupulngna, a rockhole site south of Kintore, is associated with the Pewee (Magpie-lark) Tjukurrpa. During mythological times, a group of ancestral women visited this site holding ceremonies associated with the area, before continuing their travels north to Kaakuratinja (Lake MacDonald).