Delllina Inkamala is the daughter of Raelene Inkamala who is Kathy Inkamala’s older sister, and Hillary Pareroultja who is Hubert Pareroultja’s younger brother. Dellina was born in Alice Springs but grew up in Hermannsburg, Wallace Rock Hole and Papunya. Dellina started drawing when she was in school and really liked enjoyed it so began to paint dot paintings when she left school. In recent years she became interested in watercolour painting after watching her Aunty, Kathy Inkamala and Uncle Hubert Pareroultja paint at Iltja Ntjarra Art Centre. Dellina says: ‘I like using watercolour as I can see the view of my country come alive in my paintings. It’s challenging for me but I’m getting better with the help of my aunty and uncle’.

Group exhibitions

• 2023
  Museum of Economic Botany, Tarnanthi Adelaide
• 2023
  Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre
• 2023
  Belonging / Tjoritjarinja, Ngununggula Regional Gallery Southern Highlands, Bowral NSW
• 2023
  Art house Sydney
• 2022
  Kuprilya Kwatja Etatha, Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Arts, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
• 2022
  Clay on Country, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT
• 2022
  One Too Many, Cross Arts Projects
• 2022
  23rd Biennale of Sydney - Rivus, 12 March - 13 June 2022
• 2020
  Homeless on my Homeland, NIRIN 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW

Collections

• 2020 Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), Brisbane, QLD
• 2022 Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT
• 2018 Art Gallery of South Australia (AGSA), Adelaide, SA
• 2023 Powerhouse Museum Sydney NSW