Annie Nelson Napangardi was born in 1968 at Ti Tree community, Northern Territory. She studied art with her mother, the artist Molly Nangala, who taught her to paint "Women's Ceremony" designs associated with her Dreaming. She is also a traditional jeweller, working with native seeds and gum nuts, utilising her knowledge to know the right season to collect the seeds. This work depicts the tracks made in the sand during sacred women’s ceremonies, as viewed from above. The interconnectedness between humans and land is often symbolised this way in much Central Australian art: humans are born from the land and the land and its creatures are their creation ancestors, thus they and the land are one. These paintings are both landscape art and recordings of human ceremonial practice stretching back tens of thousands of years. Her paintings can also represent the sand dunes and country of her central desert home.