Skin name: Napaljarri
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Date of birth: 1980
From: Kultukatjarra-Docker River
Current home: Alice Springs

Samantha was born in Alice Springs. She speaks Pitjapitja and Larijara. She is from Docker River Community. She learned from her grandfather bush tucker dreaming.

She is granddaughter of Linda Yunkata Syddick Napaltjarri . a Pintupi- and Pitjantjatjara- speaking Indigenous artist from Australia’s Western Desert region. Her father was killed when she was young; her mother later married Shorty Lungkarta Tjungarrayi, an artist whose work was a significant influence on Linda Syddick’s painting.

Linda Syddick was one of many Western Desert women who took up painting in the early 1990s, as part of a broader contemporary Indigenous Australian art movement. She began painting some time prior to 1991, when her work was first exhibited in Alice Springs.