Nanyuma (pronounced nan-yoo-ma) is a Pintupi woman from Kiwirrkurra in the Western
Desert of Central Australia, she was born in the bush circa 1940.
Nanyuma was taken into the west camp at Papunya by one of the Northern Territory Welfare
patrols, that were sent out from Darwin in the early 1960’s to round up the remaining nomadic
Pintupi people. When Kintore (Walangurru) was established in 1982, she chose to move back
there to live with other Pintupi people living at Papunya.
It is believed that Nanyuma began painting in 1994 and she has had a successful career as
an artist over the last decade, including participating in the joint Kiwirrkurra women’s painting
that featured in the Papunya Tula –Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New
South Wales in 2000.
Desert of Central Australia, she was born in the bush circa 1940.
Nanyuma was taken into the west camp at Papunya by one of the Northern Territory Welfare
patrols, that were sent out from Darwin in the early 1960’s to round up the remaining nomadic
Pintupi people. When Kintore (Walangurru) was established in 1982, she chose to move back
there to live with other Pintupi people living at Papunya.
It is believed that Nanyuma began painting in 1994 and she has had a successful career as
an artist over the last decade, including participating in the joint Kiwirrkurra women’s painting
that featured in the Papunya Tula –Genesis and Genius exhibition at the Art Gallery of New
South Wales in 2000.
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