Alicka Napanangka Brown

Aboriginal Warlpiri woman

Alicka Napanangka Brown was born in Alice Springs and grew up in the remote Aboriginal community of Yuendumu, 290 km north-west of Alice Springs. Alicka comes from a long line of artists and has a good grounding in painting from watching her family paint and listening to her stories since she was a child.

In 2012, at the age of 14, Alicka began painting for Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu. She mainly paints her Grandmother’s Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa (Star Dreaming) and her father’s Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming), stories that relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. She began using traditional iconography but because of her love for pattern and colour she has developed an individualist style using pattern and design in a variety of contexts to depict her traditional jukurrpa.

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