Vanessa Inkamala

Place: Ntaria (Hermannsburg)

Born: 1968

Biography:

Vanessa Inkamala is an Aboriginal Australian artist born in 1968 in Ntaria (Hermannsburg), a mission established by German Lutheran missionaries at the end of the 19th century in Australia. She is related to the Pareroultja family and has inherited their artistic abilities. She is known for her watercolor paintings, continuing the legacy of Albert Namatjira, one of the first famous Aboriginal artists who learned watercolor techniques from Rex Battarbee and held his first exhibition in 1938. Vanessa Inkamala is part of the Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, an Aboriginal owned and directed art centre based in Alice Springs, which supports the Hermannsburg School and its artists.