Isobel Major

Isobel Major Nampitjinpa was born in Alice Springs Hospital in 1957. She is the daughter of Punata Stockman Nungurrayi and her late husband Peter Major Tjangala, and the granddaughter of Papunya Tula ar st Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri. Isobel has a twin sister Shiela and another sister Maggie. Isobel paints the dreaming stories that have been passed down to her from both sides of her family. Isobel mostly paints her grandmother’s dreaming from west Kintore and east of Kiwikurra, a place called Yumarri. This is the story of a forbidden love story between 2 people of the wrong skin. Isobel is married to Patrick Poulson and they have 4 children; Peter, Rosemary and the twins Sharnie and Sheranna. Isobel has worked as an Arts Worker at Papunya Tjupi since it’s beginning in 2007. Since 2015 Isobel has been a Director of Papunya Tjupi and in 2016 was also nominated to sit on the Execu ve Board of Desart, the governing body for central Australian art centres.