Janet Forrester Ngala

Janet Forrester Ngala (* 1936 ) is an Aboriginal artist who belongs to the Luritja Aboriginal tribe in the Western Desert .

In her teens, she spent most of her time with her parents on the streets or on cattle ranches in Central Australia . She began painting in the Jukurrpa group in Alice Springs in the late 1980s . Her pictures Milky Way Dreaming and Bush Banana , which were exhibited in the Australian National Gallery, made her famous. Her images relate to the dream time of the Ernabella and Maryvale regions and are inspired by her mother and grandmother. She paints using the so-called dot technique, the point painting. The symbols she uses are snake, honey ant , bush banana , milky way, witchetty maggot, and goanna (a lizard). Her dreamtime themes are also the never-ending story of life, birth and death, and the story of creation.

Her work is exhibited not only in Australia but also overseas.

Web links

• Janet Forrester Ngala at www.authaboriginalart.com.au , accessed June 21, 2009
• Janet Forrester Ngala at www.brits-art.com , accessed June 11, 2009
• Janet Forrester Ngala at www.jintaart.com.au , accessed June 11, 2009