Rosie Flemming Nangala is a senior law woman in the Yuendumu community and founder of the Warlpiri Women’s Museum at Yuendumu in the 1970’s. Now in her sixties, she is senior custodian of a Bird Dreaming which she often depicts in her paintings, as well as Water and Butterfly Dreamings.
Rosie is a good friend of Peggy Poulson and the two often paint together. She had been doing carving and other kinds of crafts (e.g. seed necklaces and mats) for many years, selling through the Centre for Aboriginal Artists in Alice Springs, but when the opportunity arose in 1988, she began painting seriously. Her work was shown in the Centre’s exhibition at the Blaxland Galleries in the same year and she has since painted a major commission for Telecom.
Rosie travels back and forth between Alice Springs and Yuendumu, living in both places.
