Ngalpingka Simms

Overview

Ngalpingka Simms is one of the leading women painters at the Spinifex Arts Project. Born in Spinifex country in 1945, but removed in the 1950s, she was able to return to her ancestral lands in the 1980.

 

Her paintings depict the complex interrelation of water-holes and landscape features across her country with a graphic richness.

 

Her 2017 work, Minyma Tjuta, is in the Art Gallery of New South Wales,
Sydney.