DOB: c.1965
BORN: Boundary Bore, Utopia, Northern Territory
LANGUAGE GROUP: Anmatyerre
COMMUNITY: Alhalkere, Utopia, Northern Territory

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Anna Price Pitjara (Anna Price Petyarre/Anna Price) is the daughter of the late Glory Ngarla (Ngale/Ngal) and niece to one of Australia's most significant contemporary Aboriginal Artists, the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Anna began painting in the early 1980s, and initially painted Yam Seed Dreaming in a colourful and intricate expression of the songs and stories associated with her plant totem, the Bush Yam and its seeds. The Bush Yam has been a staple food and water source for the Anmatyerre people for countless years and the seeds that form and scatter from the plant are ground up to make flour for damper. During ceremony, when the women paint their bodies in sacred designs, it is Anna's duty to pay homage to the yam seeds and give thanks for their abundance and regenerative qualities. By painting to the tempo of a ceremonial song, Anna expresses her continual and permanent connection to her plant totem.

Anna has developed her painting style radically several times over the last decade, and now concentrates on extremely finely dotted works that represent her Country and the ancient, sacred ceremonial sites of her Homelands.