Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin

Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is an Aboriginal Australian artist from South Australia. She is a painter, and director of Mimili Maku Arts.

Early life Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is a Pitjantjatjara woman from Mimili in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands in the remote north-west of South Australia. She was bornHer year of birth is variously quoted as 1952

Career Goodwin spent much of her life working at the Mimili Anangu School as a pre-school teacher and retired in 2009.

Goodwin's paintings have a distinct style that has resulted in great success, with fluid brushstrokes overlaying solid masses of colour that bring texture to the canvas.

She also sings to pass on her culture, for example the witchetty grub, or maku, songline — the Maku Tjukurpa, an important ancestral story for the residents of Mimili.

In 2023, Antara (2022), a large painting using synthetic polymer on linen, won the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize at Bendigo Art Gallery.

Collections Goodwin's work is held in many important collections including: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Personal life Goodwin's late husband was Kunmanara ("Mumu Mike") Williams (1952–2019).

A number of her siblings are also artists, including Robin Kankapankatja and Margaret Dodd.

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