Yinarupa Nangala b. 1961

Yinarupa Nangala was born in 1959, west of Kiwirrikura, in tali (sandhill) country of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia. Yinarupa was married to the great Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungarrayi (dec.), an original shareholder of the famous Papunya Tula Arts Co-operative that was established in 1971. Yinarupa is the daughter of the great Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, who was also one of the original artists of the Papunya Tula Co-op. Yinarupa has two siblings who are also talented artists, Ray James Tjungala and Mantua Nangala.

Yinarupa commenced painting in 1996 and she is a highly regarded artist and has had numerous exhibitions, both nationally and internationally. She won the coveted National Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Art Award in 2009, and her artworks are held in both major public and private collection both in Australia and overseas.

Yinarupa paints designs associated with the rock-hole site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia.

In ancestral times a group of women camped at this site, Marrapinti. The shapes in the painting represent the features of the country through which they travelled as well as the bush foods they gathered.