Ann Lane Nungurrayi was born in Mparntwe (Alice Springs) and grew up in Papunya where she attended school. Her mother is Jocelyn Nampitjinpa, a Warlpiri woman and her father was Benny Tjapaltjarri from Warakurna, Western Australia. Ann remembers when her father would walk with camels to Ntaria (Hermannsburg) with rations for people. In 1992 a film was made about her father and other Pintupi men, including Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, called Benny and the Dreamers. Ann recalls painting at the old Ikuntji Art Centre with the founding artists, and that they used to make a fire inside the art centre and sometimes sleep there overnight. Ann painted for Papunya Tula artists for some time but has been painting with Ikuntji Artists since 2001. She predominantly paints the Tjukurrpa from her father’s country, Pirrnpirrnga, depicting the surrounding tali (sand hills).