Evelyn Pultara began painting in 1997. At first, she concentrated on depicting more traditional motifs such as bush berries and body motifs known as ‘awelye’. Today she paints exclusively ‘bush yam’, which is an essential food for the people of the desert, who regard it as a ‘dream’.  In 2005, Evelyn Pultara received the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for her paintings. Originally from Utopia, a famous artistic community located in the heart of Australia's central desert, Evelyn Pultara is fully representative of this school of painters in which women have always played a leading role: Utopia was originally formed from a women's silk batik cooperative - a technique consisting of applying wax to a textile base which is then dyed. This technique, imported from Indonesia, was initially used to decorate clothing, but gradually gave rise to genuine works of art.