Her richly coloured paintings of the Women’s Dreaming story from Mina Mina are dynamic images of this powerful ceremonial site in the Tanami Desert.
Leading Warlpiri artist Judy Watson Napangardi (1935-2016) has exhibited widely since 1990 and has a proud exhibition record covering more than two decades. Living to about 81 years of age, her richly coloured paintings of the Women’s Dreaming story from Mina Mina are dynamic images of this powerful ceremonial site in the Tanami Desert. In the Jukurrpa or Dreaming narrative from this site, the women celebrate the place where the digging sticks rose up from the ground. The women collected up these valuable implements and continued on their journey, dancing and creating new Creation sites as they went.