Ada Pula Beasley

Ada is an Alyawarr woman born on her mother’s country Ampilatwatja in 1959.

Part of a very large extended family, Ada had been living with her mother Jilly Holmes and sister Michelle Pula Homes in the small community of Ampilatwatja, where they all achieved notoriety as landscape artists whilst working for the Community art centre.

In 2021 Ada moved closer to her children and grandchildren who are living in the tiny out station of Wettengerr in the Epenarra Community in the Barkly Region of Central Australia. Wutunugurra (Wetenngerr) is Ada’s Grandfather and father’s ancestral country, it lies on Alyawarr land approximately 500 kms north east of Alice Springs. Ada first put brush to canvas in 2012, her application of layers of colour especially different shades of green resulted in amazing images of ‘English style gardens’. Incredibly, with the right amount of rain the arid landscape of Central Australia does take on these wonderful scenes of fields of flowers that seem like they were purposely planted out in planned garden beds.

Like many artists from Ampilatwatja Ada has chosen not to depict a Dreaming story rather, she paints the country on which all dreaming stories cross and sit.