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Haasts Bluff Bush Flowers
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Description

A sandstone dome with deep waterways and rockholes and desert oak country. Depicted in the foreground is kalingkalingpa, a type of honey grevillea. Also depicted are bush blackberries, bush sultanas, bush tomatoes, bush flour, bush grape and mingulpa, bush tobacco. There are kurrkarra, desert oak trees, quandong trees, a bottle tree, kulilpurra, christmas tree, gum trees and mulga trees.


Daisy Napaltjarri Jugadai was born in 1955 at Haast Bluff and died in 2008. Her
mother is Narputta Nangala and her father was Timmy Tjungurrayi Jugadai. Timmy’s
full brother, Daisy’s second father, is the Papunya Tula artist, Two Bob Tjungurrayi.
She is famous for the way she paints clouds. Her paintings are of a specific place
and show the trees, fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers that grown in that area.
Daisy’s paintings have been in exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne & Canberra.

Acrylic on Belgian linen, unframed.

Size: 120cm x 61cm.

Location: On display in the gallery during the aboriginal art exhibition December 2025. Refer to our exhibitions page to find out more. 

Code: TDNJ 605.

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The Artist

Daisy Jugadai Napaltjarri

Born: 1955

Died: 2008

Language: Pintupi / Luritja

Region: Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory



Daisy, a Pintupi / Luritja speaker, was born on 11 October 1955 in Haasts Bluff and grew up there where her father, Timothy Jugadai Tjungurrayi was the head stockman and her mother, Narputta Nangala, a cook.

Daisy married Kelly Multa and they moved to the nearby outstation, Kungkayunti where their daughter, Agnes was born. When her husband died Daisy, her sister, Molly (Maluya) and Agnes moved to Kintore for a while.

They returned to Haasts Bluff where Daisy began painting at the Ikuntji Women’s Centre in 1992. Her mother, Narputta Nangala Jugadai, was by then its major artist. Her father began painting in the mid 1970’s by adapting the traditional styles of the initial Papunya Tula artists and depicting site mythologies for which he held responsibilities. He inspired Narputta and Daisy who, after his death, became renowned artists, both being represented in the National Gallery of Australia.

Daisy is well known for her unique depiction of the native plants, including bush tucker, around Haasts Bluff and her wonderful clouds. What can appear to be, to those not familiar with Daisy’s work, just a colourful painting is actually a detailed description of the land formation and vegetation of an identifiable area of the surrounding beautiful, lush desert.

Whilst most Central Australian artists paint with the Belgian linen canvas flat on the floor, Daisy painted with hers leaning against a wall or table leg. In Tingari Arts Daisy was always happy painting and chatting about the area and plants she was depicting and had great joy with her wonderful clouds which completed the story.

Daisy and Linx Macpherson, Director, Tingari Arts, were one day apart in age and shared their joint birthday celebrations whenever possible, always including their friend, the artist, Pansy Napangati.

In 2000 Daisy won the painting section of the Telstra National Indigenous and Torres Straits Art Awards.

Daisy died in 2008 and is buried in Haasts Bluff.



Collections:
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Victoria
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Edith Cowan University
Artbank, Sydney
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