Claudia Williams Napangardi was born in 1987 in Alice Springs and grew up in Willowra, a remote Aboriginal community, approx. 340kms north west of Alice Springs. Claudia attended the local school and spent her childhood in the surrounding country learning about her land, her culture and her law through her Jukurrpas (Dreamings). Her mother Maggie is also an artist.
Claudia paints her Janmarda Jukurrpa (Bush Onion Dreaming); Jarli Jukurrpa (Frog Dreaming); Karnta Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming) and Kanta Jukkurrpa (Bush Coconut Dreaming – Puturlu), Dreamings which relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to her by her parents and grandparents and their parents before them for millennia
