Artist: Judy Martin Napangardi | Title: Bush Yam Dreaming | Year: - | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Dimensions: 96 x 183 cm

PROVENANCE
The Jacquie McPhee Collection

ARTIST PROFILE

COMMUNITY/REGION
Lajamanu, NT

LANGUAGE
Warlpiri

BIOGRAPHY
Judy Napangardi Martin, born around 1940 in Warlpiri country near Yuendumu, is the eldest daughter of painter Lorna Fencer Napurrula and half-sister to Judy Napangardi Watson. She began painting in the 1980s in the Lajamanu Community, Northern Territory. Her work centres around Women's Ceremonies and Yam Dreaming stories, particularly from Mina Mina and Yurmurrpa, her mother's Dreaming site.