Gwenda Turner Nungurrayi is a Warlpiri woman from Yuelumu (Mt Allen) to the North of Alice Springs, Her mother is the renowned artist, Maureen Nampitjinpa Hudson. Gwenda paints stories associated with her home land and is known for her sand dunes artworks, made up with wavy lines of precise dots which create a flowing depiction of these important sand dunes.
There is an abundance of bush foods and water to be found around these sand dunes and the information about what to find and where to find it is passed on from one generation to the next.
Gwenda also paints intricate depictions of Budgerigar Dreaming, Bush Onion and Women’s Ceremony.
