Ngipi Ward Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1949 - d. 2014

Ngipi Ward lives in the small and very remote community of Patjarr, also known as Karilwara, in the Gibson Desert, WA. She was born not far from Lake Blair or Yunpalara, at Yirril - meaning to sharpen a stick - around 1949 where she lived a nomad life of hunting & gathering with her family well in to the 1960's. Her way of life was documented in "People of The Australian Western Desert", a documentary by anthropologist, Ian Dunlop, produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit. Ngipi Ward is a painter of growing renown and a skilled hunter.

Medium - Professional acrylic paint on linen and canvas