Valerie Lynch Napaltjarri (born 13 September 1970) is an Indigenous Australian artist from Papunya in Australia's Northern Territory.
[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.
Her work Women Digging for Honey Ants at Karrinyarra was included in a group exhibition, organised by prominent curator and author Vivien Johnson, at the Ivan Dougherty Gallery in 2007.
Her work was exhibited alongside that of other prominent Australian artists including Adam Cullen, John Coburn, Cherry Hood and Michael Nelson Jagamarra.