Nardia (Narelle) Morris Nampin

Narelle (Nardia) Morris Nampin is a 34 year old Gurindji/Warlpiri artist and staff member at Karungkarni Art Centre in Kalkarindji in the northern Tanami Desert / Victoria River region of the Northern Territory. She has been a regular painter at Karungkarni Art in Kalkaringi since 2012. She loves to paint Dreaming stories which she learnt from her mother and her grandparents. Narelle and her husband are both employed at Karungkarni Art as art workers. She has two young children and looks after other children from her extended family.
Narelle loves working at the art centre because she wants to be near the old people and listen to their stories about their Dreaming and about the early days. Narelle was selected to attend training with IRCA in Canberra (Indigenous Remote Communications Association) and with the NT Libraries RIPIA (Remote Indigenous Public Internet Association) program in Katherine NT so that she can learn to record audio and visual stories so that they can be added to a digital archive of knowledge for the local community and beyond. In 2023, she graduated from the Art Worker Extension Program (AWEP) which is offered annually by ANKA to nine selected art workers from across the Kimberley and Top End region.