[6] Little is known of her early life but she attended school in Amata and, it was here, that she first learnt to make baskets, her earliest form of textile work.
[7][8] In late 2000 Young began painting at Tjala Arts (then known as Minymaku Arts) and her work in this medium is primarily drawn from the Tjala (Honey Ant) Dreaming but also incorporates Inma and Tjukurpa Dreaming.
"Young has also worked with Tjanpi Desert Weavers as a textile artist and her style here is very creative and humorous and she is known for weaving small trucks and camp crockery.
[7][2][8] As an individual Young is a successful artist and, after many group exhibitions, had her first solo exhibition 'Yaritji Young: Walytjapitiku Laina - Family Lines', at the Alcaston Gallery in Melbourne, in 2017; this was followed by two more in 2018 and 2019 respectively at the same gallery.
[10] In this collaborative the sisters paint together, sometimes simultaneously and sometimes consecutively, on a grounded canvas and, together, they focus on familiar and familial subjects that they share as their birthright.