BORN: 1980 in Alice Springs, Northern TerritoriesLANGUAGE GROUP: WarlpiriCOMMUNITY: Yuendumu, Northern Territories Corinne Nampijinpa Ryan was born in 1980 in Alice Springs in the Northern Territories of Australia. She is the daughter of Pamela Nungarrayi Ryan and has one brother and four sisters. She attended the Catholic High School in Alice Springs, then moved to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 kms north-west of Alice Springs. Corinne married Quentin Japangardi Granites, son of Alma Nungarrayi Granites, a successful artist working with Warlukurlangu Artist. Corinne and Quentin's son Farrison was born in 2001. Corinne has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artist Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art center located in Yuendumu, since 2007. She paints her husband's Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings which relate directly to his land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. She also paints her mother's Jukurrpa, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) which depicts a rockhole west of Alice Springs and Warna Jukurrpa, (Snake Dreaming) representing her land east of Papunya. Corinne uses a restricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.