Yukultji Napangati - Artist Info

About Yukultji Napangati

  • Biography

    Yukultji Napangati belongs to the generation of women artists who were influenced by the male artists of Papunya Tula, the art group formed in 1972 in Australia’s the Western Desert.

    She comes from a family which lived in a completely nomadic way, and after her father’s death in 1980, the family went into the inhabited world.

    Despite all the obstacles of adaptation, Napangati started painting in the early 1990s and has focused on the stories and songs from her dreams. Since then, she maintains a sensible, dreamy, yet simple practice and her works are to be found in different collections across Australia.

    She was one of nine featured artists in June, 2018 at the exhibition of the The Phililips Collection Museum exhibitio...

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