Belinda Golder Kngwarreye
Belinda Golder Kngwarreye is an Anmatyerre artist from the Utopia region of Central Australia. Born in 1986 at Mulga Bore, her artistic practice is deeply rooted in the cultural and creative traditions of her family and Country. Belinda comes from an esteemed lineage of Utopia artists — her grandmother, Polly Ngale, is one of the community’s most respected painters, while her mother, Bessie Purvis Petyarre, and sister, Janet Golder, are also accomplished artists. Her great-aunts, Kathleen Ngale and Angelina Ngale, are equally celebrated for their significant contributions to contemporary Aboriginal art.
Belinda paints the Bush Plum Dreaming story, a subject inherited from her grandmother, which holds profound cultural and spiritual importance. Her works capture the seasonal cycles of the bush plum plant, rendered through intricate layers of colour and texture that convey both the ripening fruit and the living landscape it inhabits.
Belinda’s paintings are a vibrant expression of ancestral knowledge and connection to Country. With a confident and intuitive hand, she builds her compositions through rhythmic clusters of dots and organic forms, creating a sense of movement and vitality that reflects the abundance of the bush plum. The works are at once abstract and deeply symbolic, inviting the viewer into a visual language of story, ceremony, and identity.
Drawing from close observation, memory, and inherited tradition, Belinda weaves together personal history with ancestral narrative. Her recent works also depict Women’s Dreaming stories, combining imagery of Country with representations of bush tucker and bush medicine. These stories honour the strength of women’s ceremonial practices and the enduring connection between land, culture, and community.
