Moving seamlessly across mediums and styles, Napanangka’s compositions are lauded for their individual rarity.
Lorna Ward Napanangka is a Pintupi artist and daughter of the renowned Timmy Payungka Tjapangardi, one of the first generation Papunya Tula artists. Born in the early 1960s in Papunya, an Indigenous community in the Western Desert, Lorna’s artistic contributions began in 1996, with her participation in the "Kiwirrkurra Women's Painting", a collaborative artwork made for the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.
Following this, Lorna began to bring forth a vast array of independent works, all varied in their style. Moving seamlessly across mediums and styles, Napanangka’s compositions are lauded for their individual rarity. Whilst some works resemble the finely gridded patterns emerging from the Tiwi islands, others have been compared to the likes of Western Desert formalist Anatjari Tjakamarra.