Yawentjle Gladys Napanangka was born 'out bush' c.1920 near Haasts Bluff, Central Australia. her husband is the celebrated Aboriginal artist Johnny Warrungkula Tjupurrula, one of the first of Aboriginal men to paint of canvas. Yawenjie helped Johnny with his background dotting, but since painting in her own right from the mid 1980's, has been represented in several major Australian State Galleries as well as the well as the World Expo in Brisbane in 1988.