Pansy Napangati b. c.1945

Also known as Pansy Napangardi
  • Artist (Painter)
Luritja/Warlpiri artist who started painting for herself in the early 1970s after observing the older men painting in Papunya in the 1970s. After a long break and a move to Alice Springs, she emerged to become one of Papunya Tula Artist's foremost female artists of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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Name
Pansy Napangati
Also known as Pansy Napangardi
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Painter)
Birth date
c.1945
Birth place
Haasts Bluff, NT
Active Period
  • c.1983 - c.1992
  • c.1975-
Residence
  • Alice Springs, NT
  • Papunya, NT
Training
  • c.1975- self-taught after observing older artists like Johnny Warangkula and Kaapa Tjampitjinpa
  • c.1989- attended literacy classes at the IAD
Indigenous Australian
 
Dreaming
  • Two Women
  • Desert Raisin
  • Hail
  • Seven Sisters
  • Willy Wagtail
  • Bush Mangoes
  • Cockatoo
  • Marlu (Kangaroo)
  • Water Snake
  • Bush Banana
Indigenous Language Groups
  • Luritja
  • Warlpiri
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert: A Biographical Dictionary

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References [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>, <ExternalResource: West, Margie (ed) (1988), 'The Inspired Dream catalogue', Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, QLD.>, <ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7.>] [<ExternalResource: Johnson, V. (2008), 'Lives of the Papunya Tula Artists', IAD Press, Alice Springs, NT ISBN 978 1 86465 090 7url:, .>]