Matjangka Norris is from Watinuma on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY
Lands), 350km SE of ULURU. She has worked in the mediums of painting and batik, examples of which can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University Collections.
Matjangka is an energetic, prolific and versatile artist who now concentrates on painting as her primary medium. Her work features a range of subjects including the constellations, traditional country and bushfoods. Her versatility is evident in the range of styles she uses from her abstract seed paintings to those that show her creative and humorous personality and feature quirky imagery such as Mamu (spirit monsters), she is famous for dancing this Inma which is humorous, but this inma also scares the children.
Matjangka works full time creating her art and spends most days in the Kaltjiti art centre. Her innate sense of creativity encompasses ‘all mediums with the unique quality of a genuine artist. Matjangka was born at Victory Downs Station, just on the Northern Territory border, north of Fregon. She moved to Ernabella with her family when she was a tjitji pulka (big girl) and went to the mission school. Matjangka and her family moved to Fregon where she finished her schooling. She has worked as a teacher at the school, store and the clinic in Fregon over the years.
Bio info courtesy Kaltjiti Arts (c)