Shirley Anne Macnamara (born 1949) is an Australian Indigenous artist from the Indjilanji/Alyewarre language group of North West Queensland best known for her woven spinifex sculptures.
Macnamara grew up on a cattle station near Camooweal, Queensland, where her family worked.
[1] From 1989 she attended Australian Flying Arts School workshops in Queensland, working in watercolour.
[1] She also worked with mixed media, installation and sculpture before turning to weaving local spinifex to create organic forms.
[1] Using the abundant spinifex grass in her people's country in northwest Queensland her weavings reflect the environment, intertwining the landscape with her personal and ancestral stories.