About Artist:
Makinti Napanangka is a senior Pintupi woman, born in the area of Karrkurritinyja (Lake Macdonald) around 1930; she now resides at Kintore Community. She was introduced to acrylic painting in 1995 as a member of the Haasts Bluff-Kintore painting project conducted at Kintore. She commenced painting for the Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. Makinti quickly developed her style, her art is characterised by a more spontaneous approach in illustrating the traditional iconography than that done by previous artists painting at Papunya.
Makinti and her husband Nyukiti Tjupurrula Makinti often paints designs associated with travels of Kungka Kutjarre (two women). The lines that feature in her paintings represent the string-like hair worn by women during ceremonies associated with certain sites.
Makinti's paintings are often the stories of the Kungka Kutjarra, ancestor figures whose travels cover great distances from Pitjantjajara country, then north east through to and beyond Haasts Bluff and Papunya. Such journeys include numerous ceremonial sites, ceremonial activities and food gathering.
Her images usually comprise of hair-string skirts (these skirts are woven by the women from human hair using a simple spindle made of two sticks) and belts worn by women in ceremonies, shown as sets of lines varying in hue and density, usually in bold yellows and oranges, alternating with white. These works are cheerful and free flowing, intensified at times by the addition of a stray grey-blue line or a patch of crimson, red or purple.
Makinti is not concerned with neatness, or the painstaking 'dot by dot' approach of others. Her bands of lines from the sweeping arcs, creating patterns that twist and bend. She is very different even to her Pintupi contemporaries.
Makinti Napanangka's work is highly sought after and is represented in major public and private collections. She was rated in the March 2003 issue of "Australian Art Collector" Magazine as one of the 50 most collectable artists in Australia.

In 2008 Makinti won the $40,000 25th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

Auction Results:
Highest Auction Price - $72,000
93 works have sold at auction since 2001