Barbara Milpati Baker Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1962

Barbara Milpati Baker was born in Yalata SA in 1962. Her father’s country is Kunumata near Nyapari community. As he travelled south to Yalata he met Milpati's mother: a woman from Tjuntjuntjara in Western Australia. As a young girl Milpati moved to Indulkana with her father and later went to Yirara College in Alice Springs to finish her education. Milpati married Anton Baker (Jimmy Baker’s son) shortly after and moved to Fregon where she helped to set up the Fregon craft room. In the early eighties she moved with her family to Kanpi Community, close to her husband and father's country.

Barbara paints Ngapari Tiukurpa from her grandmother's country on the other side of Watarru in South Australia.

Barbara currently lives in Adelaide, South Australia.