Ningi Nangala was born in the Pippar/Kiwirrkurra area, in the Great Sandy Desert, Western Australia. She is an artist, and speaks the Kukatja Language. Orphaned at a very young, she was invited by the local Aboriginal people to stay at the Balgo Mission when her family group was camped at Lirrwati close to Balgo. As a young girl she tended the mission goats, gathering bush food for them to eat.
From 1962, she returned to her own country before settling more permanently at the old mission, first at Tjalyiwarn, then at its present site at Wirrumanu. She married and had four children. After her first husband passed away, she married Tjumpo, another important Balgo artist, and had a further five children.
As an artist her work has been featured in more than seventy exhibitions in Australia and internationally. Her paintings are held in the Morven Estate and Laverty Collections in Australia and internationally in the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, University of Virginia, USA, and the Aboriginal Art Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands. (Source: Balgoart website sighted on http://www.balgoart.org.au and Australian Consulate-General: Hong Kong, China website sighted on http://www.hongkong.china.embassy.gov.au)
