A Pitjanjatjara speaker who lives in the Mutitjulu community, Uluru – where she was probably born. When she was growing up, she spent some time at Areyonga. Like some other Mutitjulu painters (e.g. Kunbry ), Impana is also very proficient at wood carving. She remembers learning to carve as a teenager to sell artefacts to the tourists who came to the Rock. She was taught this skill by other members of her family. As a young girl, she worked with Kunbry taking tourists on camel rides around the Rock and selling 'punu’ (artefacts) at the Red Centre Motel. Impana was one of the first women to start painting in the Mutitjulu community, in 1986. Common subjects of her paintings are Liru and Kuniya (two different kinds of snake) Dreamings, Women’s Inma (song and dance), the Yulara waterhole and a place near Uluru called Mantaroa. Most of her paintings are small because she recognises that it is easier for the tourists to fit them into their suitcases or cars, but she has done larger paintings for Maruku Arts and Crafts. Collections: Museum of Victoria, Osaka Museum Japan
- Writers:
- Johnson, VivienNote: primary biographer
- Date written:
- 1994
- Last updated:
- 2011
