Gloria Pannka was born in 1953 in Hermannsburg, in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is the granddaughter of the renowned Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira. From the lineage she carried on with his practice of rendering stunning depictions of the Central Australian landscape.

Pannka’s stylist development was rooted in the traditions of the Hermannsburg School, distinguished by her delicate use of colour, light, and brushwork, capturing the vastness and beauty of Country with an incredible precision yet at once; illustarating her unqiue ability to blend traditional techniques with personal expression.