Evelyn Nampijinpa Daniels Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1956 -

Evelyn was born in 1956 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Evelyn is the younger sister of celebrated Warlpiri artist and ritual leader, Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels, and they would often paint together before Dolly passed away in 2004. Evelyn has been painting with the internationally acclaimed Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed Art Centre in Yuendumu, since 2001. Warlukurlangu is a stronghold for the preservation of the ancient language and culture of the Warlpiri people. Evelyn paints her mother’s and her father’s Jukurrpa, Dreaming stories which relate to the Tanami Desert homelands of her Warlpiri ancestors. The stories were passed down to Evelyn by her older sister Dolly and her mother, and their ancestors before them over countless millennia. Evelyn Nampijinpa Daniels is a distinguished Warlpiri artist whose artworks are exhibited in major art galleries around Australia and internationally.