Francisca Brown NAMPIJINPA was born in Alice Springs and grew up in the Papunya community. Francisca Brown NAMPIJINPA is the granddaughter of Ronnie TJAMPIJINPA, one of the great names in desert Aboriginal painting, who has been painting since 1971, in other words since the beginnings of ‘contemporary’ Aboriginal painting, when under the impetus of Geoffrey Bardon - an art teacher based in the region - Aborigines began to reproduce on the wall of their school, then on plywood sheets and finally on canvas the paintings that they had previously produced for ritual purposes. Francisca Brown NAMPIJINPA has developed a unique style, stylising ancestral motifs and combining them with a more classic palette of colours that evoke the ochres of the land. 

Francisca Brown NAMPIJINPA is married to Lesley Walker JUPURRURLA, the grandson of Liddy Walker NAPANANGKA, one of the founding artists of the art centre. They have four children, two boys and two girls.