Living in Kiwirrkura (on the border between the Northern Territory and Western Australia), Payu Napaltjarri belongs to the Pintupi people. Most of its members, driven from their ancestral lands by colonization, had been grouped together in the settlement centers of the central desert and lived for a long time in the Papunya region where contemporary Aboriginal painting was born in the 1970s. Arrernte or Warlpiri artists, the Pintupi fully participated in the development of this school while developing a style of their own: concentric circles and abstract geometric shapes treated with the greatest sobriety. When they were able to return to their sacred territories, the Pintupi kept this way of painting of which the work of Payu Napaltjarri is very representative with its minimalist palette and its graphics that are both learned and simple. Aboriginal painter from the Papunya art center.