Aboriginal Fine Art

Tribe: Pintupi

Area: Kiwirrkura/Kintore, Northern Territory

Born: circa 1940

Biography:

Bambatua Campbell Napangardi was born in the early 40’s at Winron, located on Pintupi land near Kiwirrkura. She has led a traditional bush lifestyle of hunting and gathering. Her stories are traditional inherited stories. This painting depicts the salt lakes common in the area.
Bambatua’s husband was the famous late Dinni Campbell Tjampitjinpa. She recalls visiting Papunya in approximately 1981, whereby Dinni and Uta Uta Tjangala painted a large canvas depicting ceremonial events at the site of Yumari. This painting has been part of several worldwide travelling Aboriginal Art Exhibitions.
Apart from her traditional lineage, Bambatua has inherited stories from her husband Dinni Tjampitjinpa. Dinni Tjampitjinpa and Bambatua Napangardi have four sons and two daughters.
The skills and techniques she has learnt from her husband and by watching the elders paint is now applied to her own paintings. Her works are quite typical of the works by the elders from Kintore and Papunya. Her paintings traditionally depict women’s ceremonies and her country. The techniques employed here tend to focus on painting in line work and dotting techniques showing body painting designs and many traditional symbols seen in Central Desert paintings.