Ada Andy Napaltjarri

Ada Andy was born in 1954[1][2] at Narwietooma Station, near Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, west of Alice Springs.

'Napaljarri' (in Warlpiri) or 'Napaltjarri' (in Western Desert dialects) is a skin name, one of sixteen used to denote the subsections or subgroups in the kinship system of central Australian Indigenous people.

Her mother is artist Entalura Nangala who painted for major Indigenous art company Papunya Tula.

[5] And her father is Old Andy (Walpa) Tjungarrayi who is from Karrinyarra Mount wedge station and spoke Warlpiri and Anmeterrye.

In the western desert communities such as Kintore, Yuendumu, Balgo, and on the outstations, people were beginning to create art works expressly for exhibition and sale.

[11] She then lived and painted in communities where her husband was teaching, including Mount Allen, Lajamanu and Willowra, all in the Northern Territory.