- Artist: Isobel Major Nampitjinpa
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Artwork Story
Isobel Major was born in Alice Springs Hospital. She is the daughter of Punata Stockman Nungurrayi and her late husband Peter Major Tjangala, and the granddaughter of Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri. Isobel has a twin sister Shiela and another sister Maggie. Isobel paints the dreaming stories that have been passed down to her from both sides of her family. Isobel mostly paints her grandmother’s dreaming from west Kintore and east of Kiwikurra, a place called Yumarri. This is the story of a forbidden love story between 2 people of the wrong skin.
Isobel is married to Patrick Poulson and they have 4 children together. Peter, Rosemary and the twins Sharnie and Sharenna. Isobel has worked and trained as an Arts Worker at Papunya Tjupi since it’s beginning in 2007.