Valda Napangardi Granites
Valda Napangardi Granites est la petite fille du célèbre Paddy Japaljarri Sims (1916 – 2010) et de Bessie Nakamarra Sims (1932 – 2012) deux célèbres artistes qui ont fondé la communauté des artistes de Warlukurlangu.
Cette artiste est née en 1974 à Alice Springs et emménagea à Yuendumu, une communauté aborigène localisées à 290 km au nord ouest d’Alice Springs où elle vit actuellement. Elle y peint depuis 1993. Elle peint les rêves associés aux histoires ancestrales transmises par sa mère et son père tout comme ses ancêtres depuis des millénaires.
Valda Napangardi Granites is the grand-daughter of the late Paddy Japaljarri Sims (1916 – 2010) and Bessie Nakamarra Sims (1932 – 2012), two founding artists of Warlukurlangu Artists. Valda was born in 1974 in Alice Springs and grew up in Yuendumu, an Aboriginal community located 290 kms north-west of Alice Springs, where she still lives. She attended the local school. Valda has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 1993, She paints the Jukurrpa (Dreaming) stories passed down to her by her mother and father and their parents before them for millennia. These are creation stories which closely relate to the features and animals found in her family’s traditional lands. Valda is married and has one daughter. She worked with the Yuendumu Old People’s program before resigning to look after her daughter.
