Barbara Mbitjana Moore (born 1964) is an Anmatyerre woman who grew up in Ti-Tree in the Northern Territory, moving later to Amata in South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.
Moore won a National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2012 and has been a finalist in many other years.
[2] Raised in Amoonguna, she began attending Yirara College, a boarding school in Alice Springs, at the age of 13.
[6] The Tjala Arts Center community has had a profound effect on Moore's career, and she cites the vibrant social and communal atmosphere as foundational to her practice.
[6] She mainly uses acrylic paints on linen, and screen printing,[7] and is known for her vibrant and expressive use of colours and designs,[8] particularly bright orange, pink, yellow, and green.
[3] In the Pitjantjatjara language, the word Ngura describes both the physical geography of land and country, and the place to which someone belongs.
[9] In November 2019, Moore and the artist Sharon Adamson, accompanied by Annie McLoughlin, manager of Tjala Arts, completed a two-week residency at the Kluge-Ruhe museum.