Yinarupa’s was born at Tjulyuru, south east of Jupiter Well in Western Australia., approximately 800km west of Alice Springs. She belongs to the Pintupi people. Yinarupa was a young girl when her father Anatjari Tjampitjinpa and her mother Mamuriu Napaltjarri came in from the desert in 1963, one of the last groups to do so under the direction of welfare patrols lead by Jeremy Long. The patrol, with Nosepeg Tjupurrula and a Tjampitjinpa from Papunya, located the family at Mukala, and at this time her family were living on “bush mangari” made from seeds. Water and food were extremely scarce. Yinarupa and her family travelled to Papunya by truck with the welfare patrol. This is well documented in a publication titled “The Lizard Eaters” by Douglas Lockwood. Yinarupa was a former shareholder of Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd and was married to the late Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi.
Her father, Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, was a founding member of the Papunya Tula art movement. Along with her brother Ray James Tjangala, they both continue the contribution as artists as did their father.
Yinarupa is a mother of 5 and currently resides in Alice Springs. She often visits her homelands near Jupiter Well in WA.
Yinarupa paints her traditional land where the women gather to conduct ceremonial business. These places are also sites with much food, and the women gather the seeds of the native Acacia. They collect the seeds and grind it into flour and eventually bake bread from this. Her paintings also commonly show rockholes which are important water sources in the desert.
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