MARY ANNE NAMPITJINPA was born in 1935, in the bush near Lappi Lappi Rock, an area located on Mount Doreen Station, an extensive cattle breeding station in NT of Australia.

Mary Anne received a traditional Aboriginal education, that is, going bush with her parents and learning all about her country, its creation stories, its features and the flora and fauna that habited the land.

Mary Anne painted her Father’s Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings relating directly to Lappi Lappi, her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to her by her father and mother and their parents before them for millennia. Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally. When not painting or telling her stories to her grandchildren Mary Anne spent a lot of her time hunting.

Mary passed away in September 2012.