Felicity Robertson Nampinjinpa

Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson Paintings

Quick Facts

Full Name: Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson (also recorded as Felicity Robertson Nampitjinpa)

Born: 1965

Community: Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia

Language Group/People: Warlpiri

Father: Shorty Jangala Robertson, senior Warlukurlangu artist

Education: Batchelor College, Darwin, Diploma in Teaching (Assistant Teacher)

Painting Since: 2002, exhibiting since 2005

Art Centre: Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation

Main Themes: Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming), Watiyawarnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming)

Primary Medium: Acrylic on canvas/linen

Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson is a Warlpiri artist who has spent almost her entire life in Yuendumu, a remote settlement around 290 kilometres northwest of Alice Springs. Painting since 2002 with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, she carries forward a family Dreaming passed down through generations of her father's line, rendering the Water and Seed Dreamings of her Country with a style shaped by decades of cultural and artistic immersion.

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Early Life and Education

Felicity was born in 1965 and grew up attending the local school in Yuendumu before travelling to Darwin to study at Batchelor College, where she completed a Diploma in Teaching and qualified as an Assistant Teacher. She has since worked intermittently at Yuendumu School, balancing her role in education with her cultural responsibilities and her painting practice.

She is married with five children and a growing number of grandchildren, and family remains central to both her daily life and her art. At home, she often paints while sharing her Dreaming stories with her grandchildren, passing on the same knowledge she was given.

Family and Artistic Heritage

Felicity is the daughter of the respected artist Shorty Jangala Robertson, who has painted with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal-owned and governed art centre in Yuendumu, since 1988. Growing up as the daughter of such a prominent painter placed Felicity within a strong artistic lineage from an early age, and her own body of work reflects the stories and Country entrusted to her father, and to his father before him.

In 2007, Felicity travelled to Melbourne to represent and present her father's paintings, an experience that connected her more directly to the wider Aboriginal art world beyond Yuendumu.

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Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson Paintings

Artistic Practice

Felicity began painting with Warlukurlangu Artists in 2002 and has exhibited in group exhibitions since 2005. She was also among the group of artists who contributed to the painting of the Yuendumu School Doors, a widely recognised community art project.

Her work centres on two related Dreamings inherited through her father's family: Ngapa Jukurrpa, the Water Dreaming, and Watiyawarnu Jukurrpa, the Seed Dreaming. Both stories are creation narratives tied to her family's traditional Country, with origins stretching back tens of thousands of years. Felicity paints both at the Warlukurlangu art centre and at home, describing her practice simply: painting the different Ngapa and Watiyawarnu designs is what makes her feel comfortable and connected to her culture.

Style and Themes

Felicity's paintings translate the ancestral stories of water and seed into the visual language of Warlukurlangu artists, using pattern and layered symbolism to map the journeys and sites associated with her Dreamings. Through her repeated return to these two stories, her paintings function as both artistic works and acts of cultural transmission, carrying forward knowledge held within her family for generations.

Felicity's paintings are held and offered through Aboriginal art galleries with strong ties to Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, connecting her work to collectors across Australia and internationally.

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