Alysia Jones Kngwarreye grew up on her homeland at Arawerr, also known as Soapy Bore, in the Utopia region. Her grandmother is the painter Dorothy Jones Pwerle, whose Country is Atnwengerrp.

As a child, Alysia watched Dorothy paint, listened to her stories and walked with her around the family’s old places. She began painting herself at 15, and has been painting her Country ever since.

Alysia paints Atwakey, the bush orange that grows all over her Country near Arawerr. Her paintings capture the moment the plant bursts into white flowers, before the fruit forms.

Her style is her own: bold work in black and white together. In 2022 her painting Atwakey, on Belgian linen, was shown at Desert Mob, the annual exhibition of Central Australian art centres at Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs.