Mary Napangati

Mary Napangati was born near Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) circa 1955 and is the third child of four girls and one boy. Her family lived in the vicinity of Lappi Lappi, located towards the northern area of Lake Mackay, until they walked into Mt. Doreen cattle station west of Yuendumu. By this time Mary was approximately ten years old. Her family worked on the station and the children were driven by truck to attend school at Yuendumu. When the station owner died the family moved to Yuendumu where she married, later moving further west to Nyirrpi and giving birth to two boys. After her husband passed away Mary remarried the well- known Papunya Tula artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa in Kintore, where she now lives and paints.