Barbara Napangarti Reid is a Ngaanyatjarra woman born around 1964 near Tjukurla in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia. She speaks three languages.

Her mother, the noted Indigenous artist Ningura Napurrula, taught her to paint, and Barbara began in 1987. Most of her family live at Kintore. She later moved to Alice Springs for health reasons but still returns to Kintore.

Barbara paints the lands she is custodian for and the songs that explain them. Her signature features are puli (rock formations) and tali (sandhills), along with rock holes, bush foods and sacred sites around Tjukurla.

Many of her paintings tell Minyma (women’s) stories, which centre on women’s role as healers and providers in Ngaanyatjarra society. Her style is highly individual: lyrical, finely toned and full of quiet intensity, built up in the thick, layered paint typical of Kintore artists.