Elsie Granites Napanangka - Artist Info

About Elsie Granites Napanangka

  • Biography

    Elsie Granites Napanangka born in 1959, is a respected and well established Indigenous artist from Yuendumu, in the Northern Territory of Australia. Yuendumu is one of the largest remote communities in central Australia and has a thriving community of Aboriginal artists, including Felicity Robertson Nampitjinpa and the late Dorothy Napangardi. Yuendumu lies 293km northwest of Alice Springs on the Tanami Track in the Gibson Desert and is a community largely made up of the Warlpiri and Anmatyerr Aboriginal people. Elsie’s paintings are based on the Dreamings of her custodial land “Mina Mina” the Country west of her birthplace in Yuendumu. Elsie paints in the minimalist black and white dotting style, similar to the late Dorothy Napangardi who ...

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