Gail Napangati b. 1970

Gail was born in Papunya, a remote community about 200km west of Alice Springs, and now lives with her husband and family in Amata, a small community in the APY Lands. Gail’s painting style often reflects a fusion of the style of her birthplace with where she now resides in Amata.

Gail paints her grandmother’s country, and also the Bush Onion Dreaming story, detailing the journey of the older women to gather the precious tucker. Gail's paintings capture the changing textures and undulating terrain of her grandmother's country, west of Papunya. The lines are the tracks walked by the women to collect bush onions, and the roundels represent either the waterholes around which the onion grows, or where the onions have already been dugout from the land.

Gail says, ‘The ladies walk around looking for tucker and when they find a good place, they are sitting down and digging for that tucker’.