She is associated with the Jukurrpa group of women artists in Alice Springs where she lives today.
She was born at Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory, Australia.
[1] She remains one of the leading artists of Papunya Tula, after she was moved to the settlement of Papunya in the early 1960s after Haasts Bluff became abandoned due to lack of suitable water; it was here where she observed the work of many artists.
Learning from the renowned Indigenous Australian artists, Johny Warangula and Kaapa, she began to develop her own technique through the application of multi-coloured dots.
[3] She sold her works independently in Alice Springs at first and in 1989 she won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award.