Belinda Golder Kngwarraye

DOB: 1988
BORN: Alice Springs, NT
LANGUAGE GROUP: Anmatyerre
COMMUNITY: Utopia, NT

Belinda Golder Kngwarraye is an Anmatyerre woman born in 1986 in Alice Springs.  Her traditional country is Alhalkere, situated 250 km North East of Alice Springs in the Utopia Region of Central Australia. She is one of five children to Sammy Petyarre and Margaret Golder.  Belinda presently lives in Alice Springs with her husband and children.

Growing up surrounded by artists, Belinda and her sister the renowned artist Janet Golder, developed their artistic skills from a very early age as they watched and learned from renowned Australian artists such as their aunty the late Emily Kame Kngwarreye, her uncle’s Greeny Purvis Petyarre and Kudditji Kngwarreye, her aunties, the well-known Petyarre sisters and her grandmother Polly Ngale and extended grandmother’s Kathleen and Angelina Ngale, just to name a few.

The theme for Belinda’s paintings come from her grandmother’s story – Bush Plum, a woman’s story that belongs to Ahalpere country.  Her application of thick layers of paint blended with a large bristle brush successfully produces a delicate soft floral motif representative of the flowers of the Bush Plum or Conkleberry. The Anmatyerre women of Utopia still celebrate awelye – women’s ceremony, for this very important bush food.

Belinda is an up-and-coming young artist whose beautiful paintings have already been represented in many group exhibitions and can be found in private collection both in Australia and overseas.