Ida’s Martu name is Kajapi and she was born near Nyukuwarta in Mangala country to the north of the Martu homelands.
With her family, she walked around the northern Great Sandy Desert and travelled west to Anna Plains station.
She lived in the desert until she was perhaps eleven years old when she moved into La Grange mission at Bidyadanga with her family.
She went to school at La Grange and Broome before going to work on Anna Plains station, washing clothes for whitefellas.
She met her first husband on the station but he has passed away.
She met her second husband, Muuki Taylor, at Strelley.
They moved to Parnngurr together and raised three children, two of whom have begun painting. Kajapi paints the country to the west, north and east of Wirnpa, which is her husband’s country.
She has painted Pirrinkarra, Japurlka and Wirrlkurlja, soaks to west of Wirnpa and Majamajajarntijarra yinta, where she lost her father..
Ida’s Martu name is Kajapi and she was born near Nyukuwarta in Mangala country to the north of the Martu homelands.
With her family, she walked around the northern Great Sandy Desert and travelled west to Anna Plains station.
She lived in the desert until she was perhaps eleven years old when she moved into La Grange mission at Bidyadanga with her family.
She went to school at La Grange and Broome before going to work on Anna Plains station, washing clothes for whitefellas.
She met her first husband on the station but he has passed away.
She met her second husband, Muuki Taylor, at Strelley.
They moved to Parnngurr together and raised three children, two of whom have begun painting. Kajapi paints the country to the west, north and east of Wirnpa, which is her husband’s country.
She has painted Pirrinkarra, Japurlka and Wirrlkurlja, soaks to west of Wirnpa and Majamajajarntijarra yinta, where she lost her father..