Betty Kuntiwa Pumani

Pumani was born in 1963 near Perentie Bore, South Australia, about 30 km from Mimili Community. At Mimili she worked at the store, then at the clinic as a traditional healer. She later became a teacher at the local school. In 2007 she began painting at the Mimili Maku Art Centre. == Works ==

Pumani paints Antara, her mother's country. The paintings map its significance and tell its stories. Using a restricted palette she represents the strength of Anangu connection to country. == Awards ==

In 2016, Pumani won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) $5,000 general painting prize with a depiction of Antara. Olsen's comments "caused a storm of justified outrage", and art critic Susan McCulloch responded to by publishing a brief history of Antara and Aboriginal Dreaming. In 2020, a diptych by Pumani and her daughter Marina Pumani Brown was a NATSIAA finalist. == References ==