Ningura Naparrula was born circa 1938 at Watulka, south of Kiwirrkura, in the Northern Territory. Her language group was Pintupi and she was based at Kintore (Walungurru), NT. The widow of famous Papunya artist Yala Yala Gibbs, Napurrula was represented at ARCO in Spain in 2002, and in the same year received a highly commended award at the Alice Prize.

One of the women artists of Kintore who started painting consistently in the 1990’s, Napurrula's most striking works are often large and comprise one or two colours (often black and white or red and white, or, as seen here, earth tones and white). She is a meticulous painter, the most striking of whose works show great deliberation. Her style, along with that of her colleagues such as her sister Nancy Ross Nungurrayi, Kayi Kayi Nampitjinpa and Nanyuma Napangardi, is often referred to colloquially as employing a ‘spider web’ design - a reference to the thickly applied white paint with which she joins dots into strongly-lined patterns, building up the surface in layers. 

 Due to the secret status of the Tingari ancestral stories and other western desert cultural restrictions, some of Napurrula’s designs cannot be seen by men or uninitiated women and so are first laid down, then covered up with this thick paint. The outline of this can be seen faintly with sections of the underpainting left entirely bare. This gives the illusory effect of the darker underlayers appearing as though on the surface, and adds particular depth of field and richness to her images.