Mitjili Napurrula is a Pintupi woman from the Haasts Bluff region, located 200 km west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She was born around 1945 and is half sister to Turkey Tolson, another well-known Pintupi painter. Her mother is Tjunkayi Napaltjarri, a well known artist who was involved in the 'Minyma Tjukurrpa Project' and consequently became one of the principal women painters at Kintore. She married Long Tom Tjapanangka at Papunya in the 1960s and they later lived at Haasts Bluff.

Mitjili began painting at the Ikuntji Women's Centre in 1992/93. She paints her father's country called Uwalki which lies in the Gibson Desert near the Kintore Ranges, west of Haasts Bluff. This country ...