Emrhan Tjapanangka Sultan (My Grandfather’s Country) is a distinguished Aboriginal artist whose creative journey weaves together ancestral traditions and contemporary artistic expression. Born and raised in Mparntwe (Alice Springs), he is strongly connected to his cultural values. He was taught, and given permission from his Elders, to paint in the traditional style of the Western and Central Desert art from an early age. In recent years he has been exploring different mediums, in particular digital designs and different colour pallets. In 2022, Tjapanangka helped found Solid Lines, a First Nations agency dedicated to representing First Nations illustrators. In 2023, Solid Lines took home the top Indigenous Design Award at the Good Design Awards.

An emerging artist from the community of Wutunugurra (Epenarra), Gladys Kemarr Lewis (Bush Medicine and Flowers) is the niece and granddaughter of leading artists, Susie Peterson and Jessie Peterson. Wutunugurra is nestled in the foothills of Iytwelepenty (the Davenport Ranges), and Gladys’s playful paintings magnify the tiny wild flowers which blanket the country. Haloed with bright, line work which trace the loosely rendered shape of bush flowers in bold colours, her delicately dotted landscapes dance rhythmically across the canvas. Gladys’s work is a celebration of the simple beauty of Iytwelepenty and its wild flowers and their potent medicinal forces.

Keahanie Baker Tunkin (Kalaya Tjurkurpa) is a young emerging artist from the Tjungu Palya Art Centre, about 100km south of Uluru. The 21-year-old has grown up on country in the Kanpi community with her grandmother, the respected senior artist Kay Baker. Keahanie has a deep love of Tjurkurpa (a system of belief for the Anangu people), always learning and re-telling the stories from her country. She loves to visit the sacred sites and important landmarks, and is eager to share what she can with others through painting, talking and inma. Developing a fresh painting style with bold colours, Keahanie’s work is deeply rooted in the land and law of her country.

Margaret Bloomfield (Shooting Star) is related by marriage to the Young family who have been deeply involved with Keringke Arts Centre since its beginning in 1989. Her mother-in-law is founding artist Josette Young. Originally from Harts Range, Margaret moved to Ltyentye Apurte (Santa Teresa) in 2002. She began learning from local Keringke artists Mary and Evelyn Young, and soon discovered her own passion for painting. Margaret’s distinctive work is influenced by her strong relationship to family. She is also the grand-daughter of Billy Benn, a well-known Alyawarre landscape artist from Harts Range.

Born in Papunya in 1980, Roseranna Larry (Wirliyajarrayi) is an artist and Chairperson of Ikuntji Artists. She is the oldest daughter of painter Susie Lane, a Warlpiri and Luritja woman from Haasts Bluff. Her father, Roy Wara Larry, was an important lawman, working with local Aboriginal people and non-Indigenous people. Her grandmother, Old Lady Morton (her father’s auntie), taught Roseranna to paint when she visited family in Willowra, passing down the Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). In Haasts Bluff, where Roseranna grew up, her other grandmother, Esther Napaltjarri Jugadai (founding member of Ikuntji Artists), also taught her how to paint and collect the native ininti seeds that are used for ceremonies. Roseranna began painting her story on canvas in 2017 when Old Lady Morton passed away.

Kelly Dixon (Wilkinkarra – Lake Mackay) is the daughter of acclaimed artist Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon and Lindsay Tjapaltjarri. She is also the granddaughter of Papunya Tula Artists founding member, Uta Uta Tjangala (Alice’s stepfather). Born in Lambara outstation, west of Papunya, in 1970, Kelly first came to Haasts Bluff with her parents when she was four. She travelled extensively through the western desert with her family and in her teens attended school at Yirara College in Alice Springs. In 2012, Kelly started painting for Ikuntji Artists, where she continues to work and paint today.

Artist and Director Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre Vanessa Inkamala was born in Ntaria (Hermannsburg) in 1968. The late Albert Namatjira is her great-uncle and her aunt is fellow artist Ivy Pareroultja. Her brother Reinhold Inkamala is also a painter. In her late 20s, Vanessa married an Eastern Arrernte man from Santa Teresa, south-east of Alice Springs. She lived there for a time, painting in the style of that community. She is now based in Alice Springs working daily at Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre. Her work was first exhibited with Iltja Ntjarra in 2016 and has been quickly acquired by a number of major collections including University of Technology Sydney (UTS), National Museum of Australia (NMA), Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Queensland Art Gallery (QAG) & Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). Vanessa has taken part in a number of special projects, including the 2016 Cicada Press print workshop with Tony Albert (University of New South Wales, Sydney), Parrtjima in 2017 and the project, What if this photograph is by Albert Namatjira?, with Melbourne-based artist Tom Nicholson.