Rosalind was born in 1944 near Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and went to school at Utju (Areyonga). Rosalind has been making tjanpi baskets for some years, and made her first tjanpi sculptures in 2007, learning these new skills at a Tjanpi workshop. She has a wonderful sense of colour, which can be seen in her tjanpi works. A multi skilled artist, she also paints and makes punu.

Tjanpi (meaning ‘dry grass’) evolved from a series of basket weaving workshops held on remote communities in the Western Desert by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara Womens’ Council in 1995. Building on traditions of using fibre for medicinal, ceremonial and daily purposes, women took easily to making coiled baskets. These new-found skills were shared with relations on neighbouring communities and weaving quickly spread. Today there are over 400 women across 28 communities making baskets and sculptures out of grass and working with fibre in this way is firmly embedded in Western and Central Desert culture. While out collecting desert grasses for their fibre art women visit sacred sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families and teach their children about country.