Diane Ungukalpi Golding Australian, Ngaanyatjarra, b. 1962

Dianne Ungukalpi Golding is an artist belonging to the Ngaanyatjarra language and cultural group in Western Australia, and lives with her family in Warakurna. Dianne has made baskets fora number of years and first learnt from relatives in Warakurna.She enjoys experimenting with different shapes and says: “Some long like piti(traditional wooddish), some round like the sun.” She has since made a number of sculptural pieces drawinginspirationfrom the animals prevalent on the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, whether they be the campdogs in the community or the goannas, porcupines, or rabbits hunted out bush. Dianne exhibited her first sculptural piece, a large camel, at Desert Mob 2006 in Alice Springs. She has then exhibited her fibre artwork with Tjanpi Desert Weavers every year since 2012. Notable amongst these exhibitions is String Theory at the Museum of Contemporary ArtSydney NSW in 2013, Desert Mob 2015 and 2016 in Alice Springs NT, and Flight at FORMGallery in Perth WA 2017. Dianne’s Helicopter and Camels sculptures exhibited at Flight werelater acquired by the state collection held by the Western Australian Museum. This delightfuland humorous piece depicts the story of Ngaanyatjarra Senior Man and Ranger, Mr Bennett,mustering camels out of Warakurna community.As well as being an established fibre artist, Dianne is also a proficient and well-exhibited painterrepresented by Warakurna Artists. Notably, Dianne has two collaborative paintings held in thenational collection at the National Museum of Australia, Land Management, Burning Countryand Tjanpi.Dianne is a kind, feisty and intensely funny woman who has overcome extreme odds tobecome a highly successful artist and an inspiration to her family and community