Desphina Nampijinpa Brown
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BiographyDesphina Nampijinpa Brown was born in 1996 and comes from Nyirripi Community approximately 450km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu Community. Warlukurlangu makes regular visits to Nyirripi to drop off canvas, paint and brushes for the artists and to collect finished artwork. When Desphina was young she would watch her grandmother paint and listen to her stories. Since returning to Nyirripi family members have encouraged her to paint. She paints her Grandmother’s Mina Mina Jukurrpa, stories that relate to her country, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories have been passed down through the generations for a least 50 millennia.
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