Leah Leaman Yinpingali Namitja

Leah Yinpingali Leaman Namitja is a Gurindji/ Malngin artist whose mother’s country is Jutamaliny on Limbunya Station, from where she gets her totem, the Red-backed Kingfisher. The subject of her artwork reveals her love of fishing in rivers and waterholes, bush flowers, brolgas and fish, blending traditional stories in contemporary format. Leah’s artwork features in exhibitions including the Vincent Lingiari Lecture art exhibition at Charles Darwin University and Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair. Her artwork, Women Collecting Flowers and Bushfood, is touring Australia in the Karungkarni / Brenda L. Croft exhibition, Still In My Mind: Gurindji location, experience and visuality. In 2020, Leah’s painting Ngumpin Kartiya purrupurru jarrakap ngulu manana (Blackfellas and whitefellas speaking together) was selected for The Plenary Reconciliation Plan. In 2021, Leah was awarded the Vincent Lingiari Memorial Art Award, Delegates Choice, with her artwork ‘Yannana wart ngurrangkirri – Going Home’.