Temika Napangardi Woods
Artworks
Biography
Temika Napangardi Woods was born on 30 August 2005 at Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Nyirripi. a remote aboriginal community located approximately 430km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She attended both Nyirripi and Yuendumu schools and completed her studies at Yirrara College, a boarding school in Alice Springs. Temika has 3 sisters and one brother and lives in Nyirripi with her family.
Temika is one of many artists in her family. Her mother, Samantha Gibson, and grandparents Jennifer Lewis and Colin Gibson all paint with Warlukurlangu Artists. She paints both Mina Mina Jukurrpa and Wardapi Jukurrpa (Goanna Dreaming).