Norah Nelson Napaljarri

Norah Nelson Napaljarri (born 26 October 1956) is a Warlpiri-speaking Aboriginal artist from Australia's Western Desert region.

Norah Nelson was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, north-west of Alice Springs on 26 October 1956.

[2] '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.

[2] Western Desert artists such as Norah will frequently paint particular 'dreamings', or stories, for which they have personal responsibility or rights,[9] and in Norah's case these have included Karntjarra (Two Women), Ngaru (bush plum) Ngarlkirdi (witchetty grub) and Pangkurlangu (Giant) dreamings.