Ngarta Jinny Bent

Ngarta Jinny Bent spent her early years as a hunter and gatherer in the Great Sandy Desert. Following her arrival at Christmas Creek Station, Ngarta was put to work, but ran away to Cherrabun to join the man who had been chosen as her husband, and later raised a family. In middle age she learned to paint, and her work has been exhibited in Australia and overseas. In her later years Ngarta spent much of her time on her family’s outstation on the edge of the desert, and made many journeys back to her country. She died in 2002.