Gladys ‘Nappurula’ Anderson (Ducks) was born in Alroy Downs, near Barkly Homestead, to a Warumungu father and mother. She went to school in Rockhampton Downs before moving to Tennant Creek where she started painting. Gladys used to paint crows, an important dreaming for the Warumungu. She now paints white ducks from the recreational dam at Tingkarli, 5km north of Tennant Creek.