Bambatu Napangardi - Artist Info

About Bambatu Napangardi

Name variants

Bombatu Napangardi, Bambatu Napangati
  • Biography

    Born in around 1940/42 in Winron, Pintupi country, across the Western Australian border, east of Kiwirrkura, Bambatu Napangardi grew up in the bush living a traditional life with her family, hunting and living off the land, as the Aboriginal people did for thousands of years before her.

    She had no contact with established communities until her family walked into the Papunya Community, west of Alice Springs, in the 1960’s. Bambatu’s parents died when she was young, the responsibility for her upbringing was handed over to well known artists Yala Yala Gibbs and Ningura Gibson Naparrula, exposing her to painting from a young age.

    While visiting relatives in Balgo she met Dinni Campbell Tjampitjinpa and they married in Balgo. ...

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