Belinda Golder Kngwarreye was born in 1986 and as an Anmatyerre speaker from the Utopia region of Central Australia, situated approximately 130km north-east of Alice Springs. Belinda comes from a long line of significant and well-established artists. She is the daughter of Bessie Petyarre; her sister is Janet Golder Kngwarreye and both artists are the grandaughters of Polly Ngale. Her great aunts are artists Kathleen Ngale and Angelina Ngale. Belinda is following in the footsteps of these, and other highly regarded artists of the Kngwarreye family, especially Emily Kame Kngwarreye, and Kudditji Kngwarreye.
Her paintings depict the seeds, flowers and fruit of the bush plum - an important dreaming story as well as food source for her people, which was taught to her by her grandmother, Polly Ngale. Belinda also paints the bush yam, Awelye (women’s ceremony) and compositions she has named ‘My Country’.
