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Matjangka Norris is from Watinuma on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands), 350 kilometres south-east of Uluru, and was born at Victory Downs Station, just on the Northern Territory border, north of Fregon. She works in two art forms which are painting and batik. Examples of her batik works can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University Collections.
She moved to Ernabella with her family when she was a tjitji pulka (big girl) and went to the mission school. Matjangka and her family moved to Fregon where she finished her schooling. She has worked as a teacher at the Fregon school and in the Fregon store.
Matjangka is an energetic, prolific and versatile artist who has worked in both batik and acrylic paintings. Her work features a range of subjects including the constellations, traditional country, bush foods and mamu. Her versatility is evident in the range of styles she uses from her abstract seed paintings to those that show her creative and humorous personality and feature quirky imagery such as mamu (spirit monsters). She is famous for dancing this inma which is humorous but also scares the children. Her creativity is showcased through the extremely detailed paintings of the night sky and the landscape. The end result always astounds viewers with the energy and effects she achieves through a single colour and simple mark making.
At present, she works full-time as a health worker at the Fregon clinic. Creating art is second nature to Matjangka and she is always in and out of the Kaltjiti art centre in her spare time with a painting in progress.
Matjangka Norris is from Watinuma on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands), 350 kilometres south-east of Uluru, and was born at Victory Downs Station, just on the Northern Territory border, north of Fregon. She works in two art forms which are painting and batik. Examples of her batik works can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University Collections.
She moved to Ernabella with her family when she was a tjitji pulka (big girl) and went to the mission school. Matjangka and her family moved to Fregon where she finished her schooling. She has worked as a teacher at the Fregon school and in the Fregon store.
Matjangka is an energetic, prolific and versatile artist who has worked in both batik and acrylic paintings. Her work features a range of subjects including the constellations, traditional country, bush foods and mamu. Her versatility is evident in the range of styles she uses from her abstract seed paintings to those that show her creative and humorous personality and feature quirky imagery such as mamu (spirit monsters). She is famous for dancing this inma which is humorous but also scares the children. Her creativity is showcased through the extremely detailed paintings of the night sky and the landscape. The end result always astounds viewers with the energy and effects she achieves through a single colour and simple mark making.
At present, she works full-time as a health worker at the Fregon clinic. Creating art is second nature to Matjangka and she is always in and out of the Kaltjiti art centre in her spare time with a painting in progress.