Born at Yuendumu c.1965. A Warlpiri speaker, her country is Yarripilangu and Goanna and Ngalyipi (snake vine) Dreamings her usual subjects. She lives in Alice Springs, but has connections with the community at Kiwirrkura. She began painting in 1989 after watching her brother, Andrew Spencer Japaljarri , when she was living at Hidden Valley. Her brother taught her about their father’s Dreamings. 'I dance and paint for the Dreaming’. She worked with the Jukurrpa group based at the I.A.D. in Alice Springs in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
- Writers:
- Johnson, Vivien
- Date written:
- 1994
- Last updated:
- 2011
