Narelle Nangala Brown

Narelle Nangala Brown was born in 1987 and comes from Yuendumu Community approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She is the daughter of Veronica Napangardi Martin and Ernest Japanangka Brown and granddaughter of Peggy Nampijinpa Brown - a respected Warlpiri woman in the Yuendumu Community who received the Order of Australia Medal in 2007 for her work in a successful Petrol sniffing program. 

As a young girl Narelle would often watch Peggy paint and listen to her stories. Narelle has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 2008 - a local Aboriginal owned and governed art centre based in Yuendumu. Narelle paintd her grandmothers Watiya-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming) and her parents Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming). Initially Narelle's artworks consisted of using traditional iconography but over time she has developed an individualistic style using unrestricted colours, patterns and designs.

• Warlukurlangu Artists (www.warlu.com.au)