Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri (born c. 1948; died 17 November 2022,[1] also known as Ngnoia) is a Walpiri-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

Daughter of Angoona Nangala and Jim Tjungurrayi, Ngoia Pollard was born circa 1948[2] in Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, west of Alice Springs.

The ambiguity around the year of birth is in part because Indigenous Australians operate using a different conception of time, often estimating dates through comparisons with the occurrence of other events.

[3] '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.

[6] She married Jack Tjampitjinpa and they moved to Kintore, and then on to Mount Liebig (now Amundurrngu Outstation) which at that time was unoccupied, about fifty kilometres west of Haasts Bluff.

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.

[8] In 2006, Ngoia Pollard won the painting prize in the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Awards, with her work Swamps west of Nyirripi.