DOB: c. 1946

BORN: Tjitururrnga, west of Walungurru (Kintore)
LANGUAGE GROUP: Pintupi
COMMUNITY: Walungurru

Walangkura Napanangka (c. 1946–2014) and her family were amongst a group of Pintupi people who walked for hundreds of kilometres from west of Karrkurutinyja (Lake Macdonald) to the Ikuntji settlement (Haasts Bluff) in 1956 for food and water at the settlement. The family returned to their own country of Walungurru in 1981. Walangkura began painting through her participation in the historic Kintore-Haasts Bluff collaborative canvas project ‘Minyma Tjukurrpa’ in 1995, and eventually began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996 with her husband and fellow artist Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula. Walangkura’s paintings feature rock holes, sand hills and underground caves.

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