Mary Brown Napangardi

Mary Brown Napangarti was born c. 1953 in a bush camp at Mandarine, south west of Yuendumu in central Australia. As a young girl, Mary lived a traditional lifestyle, learning about gathering bush tucker, bush medicine, making necklaces for ceremonies.

Whilst Mary was still young, her family was picked up by a white man and moved to Yuendumu. She lived there for some time with her family and then with her husband and fellow artist, Mick "Pegleg" Brown Tjampitjinpa (passed away) . Mary and Mick later moved to Mt Liebig and then onto Nyirripi.

Mary started to paint in the early 1990's. Mary lives at Yuendumu and is the wife of celebrated artist, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa.

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