Debbie Napaltjarri Brown (b. 1985) is from Nyirripi in the Northern Territory, an Aboriginal community 400 kilometers northwest of Alice Springs. In 2012 she moved to Yuendumu, 160 kilometers east of Nyirripi with her husband and son. Debbie has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art center located in Yuendumu, since 2006. Her Grandmother, Margaret Napangardi Brown, also an artist with the art center, taught her to paint. Her Grandfather was the late renowned Pintupi artist Pegleg Tjampitjinpa. Debbie would watch her grandmother and grandfather paint and listen to her Grandmother’s Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). In her paintings, Debbie paints her father’s Tjukurrpa, which relate directly to her land, its features, plants, and animals. These stories were passed down by her grandmother and her mother, and their parents before them, for millennia. The sand hills of the central deserts of Australia, which run from east to west for hundreds of kilometers, are one of the predominant landform features in this region. An Indigenous Australian person’s culture and their art are intimately linked to their country and to the stories passed down from one generation to another. It is their Tjukurrpa which is not a metaphor – it really exists. The primary task of Aboriginal art – be it on modern canvas or executed traditionally (ground paintings, body paintings, petroglyphs) - is to express ongoing myth and belief as part of ritual, in forms coming from the distant past.