Frances Nowee

Frances Ann was born at Tjalyuwang, one of the remote mission sites before the Catholic mission was established at Wirrimanu (Balgo). She is the eldest of five daughter to the late Brandy Tjungurrayi, senior Law man and recognised artist.

When Frances was young she went to the local school at Balgo Hills and she also attended high school in Broome. Her family moved between Balgo and Christmas Creek and then in 1996 they moved to Kiwirrkurra where they stayed until the community was flooded and evacuated in 2001. Frances still lives in Balgo with one her two sons, Shannon Gibson, a burgeoning young artist. Frances has painted since the mid 1990s, she paints stories learnt from her mother and father, of the Tjukurrpa (creation lore) and Country along the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route.