Makinti Napanangka is a senior Pintupi woman, born around 1932, who has resided within the Kintore Community and now lives in Alice Springs. She was introduced to acrylic painting in 1995 as a member of the Haasts Bluff-Kintore painting project conducted at Kintore. Makinti quickly developed her style and has held to it, painting continuously since then, aside from an enforced break due to a cataract operation in 1998.

Makinti's paintings are often the stories of the Kungka Kutjarra (Two Women), Ancestor figures whose travels cover great distances from Pitjantjajara country, then north east through to and beyond Haasts Bluff and Papunya. Such journeys include numerous ceremonial sites, ceremonial activities and food gathering.

Makinti's images often comprise hairstring skirts (these skirts are woven by the women from human hair using a simple spindle made of two sticks) and belts worn by women in ceremonies, shown as sets of lines varying in hue and density, usually in bold yellows and oranges, alternating with white. These works are cheerful and free flowing, intensified at times by the addition of a stray grey-blue line, or a patch of crimson red or purple.

Makinti is not concerned with neatness, or the painstaking 'dot by dot' approach of others. Her bands of lines form into sweeping arcs, creating patterns that twist and bend. She is very different even to her Pintupi contemporaries.
Makinti Napanangka's work is highly sought after and is represented in major public and private collections.