Anne was born in Alice Springs in 1965 and grew up in Ernabella. Her family live at the Pitjantjatjara communities of Fregon and Watarru. Anne has three children:one son and two daughters. She spends time between Watarru, where her extended family live, and Alice Springs, as her husband is a teacher at Yirara Collage.

Anne was inspired to learn the Tjampi coiled basketry technique after watching her mother, Wipana Jimmy, and Tinpula Mervin, practice this art-form. Although starting to weave only recently, Anne has a strong sculptural sensibility and her basket are unique and interesting. Anne enjoys working on a large scale and experimenting with new styles. her baskets and sculptures are highly sought after artworks.

Tjanpi evolved from a series of basket weaving workshops held in remote communities in the Western desert by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatatjara Women's Council in 1995. Building on traditions of using fibre for medicinal, ceremonial and daily purposes, women took easily to making coiled baskets

These new-found skills were shared with relations on neighbouring communities and weaving quickly spread. Today over 400 Aboriginal women across 28 communities are making baskets and sculptures out of grass and working with fibre in this way is firmly embedded in Western and Central desert culture. While out collecting desert grasses for their fibre art, women visit scared sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families and teach their children about country.