Nora Andy Napaltjarri

Nora Andy Napaltjarri (born c. 1957) is a Warlpiri- and Luritja-speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

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.

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.

[6] Western Desert artists such as Nora will frequently paint particular 'dreamings', or stories, for which they have personal responsibility or rights,[12] with bush onion dreaming being a theme in her work.