Swamps at Nyrripi
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Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri

Ngoia Pollard Napaltjarri was born in Haast's Bluff in about 1948. Ngoia paints her father's country, which is a sacred Walpiri territory. The oval shapes in her paintings are iconographic representation of the swamps and lakes near Nyrripi (Talarada) north west of Mount Liebig where Ngoia lives. The dots represent the water drying up and the cracks in the ground forming.

Ngoia's work is included in the National Australian Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, and Artbank Sydney, amongst others. In 2004 Ngoia was the winner of the Advocate Central Australian Award, and in 2006 was outright winner of the highly prestigious NATSIAA Telstra prize.