Biography

b. 1986, Warlpiri, Pintupi and Luritja Kellyanne Tex Nungurrayi grew up in the remote community of Nyirrpi, northwest of Alice Springs. Raised within her mother’s family, she credits senior relatives Nancy Gibson Napanangka and Biddy Nangala with teaching her to paint. Country and Dreaming Kellyanne paints Water Dreaming associated with her ancestral Country northwest of Nyirrpi, particularly the sites of Mina and Lappi Lappi. These narratives concern the presence and movement of water through the desert landscape and its fundamental importance to life. Style and Technique Working in acrylic on canvas, Kellyanne develops her compositions through repeated marks, rhythmic pattern and layered colour. Her paintings translate inherited Water Dreaming narratives into a distinctly contemporary visual language. For the Collector Kellyanne represents a younger generation of Western Desert artists continuing knowledge passed through family and Country. Her work brings a contemporary sensibility to an enduring cultural narrative, grounded in the landscape surrounding Nyirrpi.