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Alicka Napanangka Brown

Alicka Napanangka Brown was born in 1998, in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Alicka paints with the world-acclaimed Warlukurlangu Arts Centre at Yuendumu. She is the daughter of Maria Nampinjinpa Brown and granddaughter of Wendy Nungarrayi Brown, well-known artists in their own right. She has one sister Antoinette Napanangka Brown who also paints for Warlukurlangu Art Centre. Alicka comes from a long line of artists and has a good grounding in painting, watching her family paint and listening to her stories since she was a child.

In 2012, at the age of 14, Alicka began painting for Warlukurlangu, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre which is an important stronghold for the preservation of the language and culture of the Warlpiri Aboriginal people. Alicka attended the local Yuendumu school. When she finished school, she devoted all her time to painting.

Alicka mainly paints her grandmother’s Yanjirlpirri Jukurrpa (Star Dreaming) and her father’s Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming), stories that relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Alicka began her painting career using traditional iconography but because of her love for pattern and colour, she has developed an individualist style using pattern and design in a variety of contexts to depict her traditional Jukurrpa.

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Founded by Gunggari Aboriginal woman Charmaine Saunders in 2012, Mainie is a Supply Nation certified Indigenous Australian-owned company and an Indigenous Art Code approved dealer member. We recognise the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

We acknowledge the sorrow of the Stolen Generations and the impacts of colonisation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We respect the resilience, strength and pride of Australia’s First Nations people and their communities. Mainie is committed to supporting Aboriginal women artists to earn an independent income from their own work and to keep alive their traditional cultural heritage for future generations.