Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri was a Pintupi-Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia’s Western Desert region. She played a significant role in the establishment of Ikuntji Women’s Centre. Her paintings reflect her Tjuukurrpa, the complex spiritual knowledge and relationships between her and her landscape. She died in 2008, her funeral held at Haasts Bluff, where she was born.
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Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri was a Pintupi-Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia’s Western Desert region. She played a significant role in the establishment of Ikuntji Women’s Centre, where many artists of the region have worked. Her paintings reflect her Tjuukurrpa, the complex spiritual knowledge and relationships between her and her landscape. Her works were selected for exhibition at the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards five times between 1993 and 2001. She died in 2008, her funeral held at Haasts Bluff, where she was born. The contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement began in the western desert in 1971, when Indigenous men at Papunya took up painting, led by elders such as Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, and assisted by teacher Geoffrey Bardon. This initiative rapidly spread across Indigenous communities of central Australia, particularly following the commencement of a government-sanctioned art program in central Australia in 1983.
By the 1980s and 1990s, such work was being exhibited internationally. In the 1990s many began to create paintings for exhibition and sale. Daisy began with linocut printmaking, but quickly shifted to acrylic painting, producing many of her best works. She was one of the first artists who came to painting through the early Ikuntjis Women’s Center in the mid-1990s. She had a daughter, Agnes, with Kelly Multa, and later remarried, to an Elcho Islander, after which she travelled regularly between Arnhem Land and Haast Bluff. Daisy had an older sister, artist Molly Jugdai Napaljarri, and another sister, Ester, who predeceased her.
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