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Pauline Napangardi Gallagher

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Pauline Napangardi Gallagher was born in 1952 in Yuendumu.

Pauline’s country is Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a sacred water hole located near Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu and approximately 350 km north-west of Alice Springs. Pauline has been painting since 2006 in a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in NT of Australia.

She paints her father’s stories – Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Pikilyi Dreaming) and Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming), Dreaming’s that relate to her land, its features, and animals. They have been passed down to her by her parents and their parents before them for millennia. Pauline loves colour and uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional Aboriginal culture.

She went to the local school in Yuendumu and soon after married her promised husband who is now deceased. Pauline moved to Nyirripi in 1983 and still lives there. She has five children, three sons and two daughters; she also has fifteen grandchildren.

ORIGINAL ARTWORK AVAILABLE HERE