Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist committed to passing on her cultural knowledge to the next generation of Anangu. She moved to Mimili with her family at a young age. At the time, a cattle station named Everard Park Station was located at present day Mimili. Tuppy grew up working at the station until it transitioned into state administration in 1972, and the land was returned to traditional owners through the 1981 Pitjantjatjara Land Rights Act.

Alongside her late husband Kunmanara (Mumu Mike) Williams, Tuppy has been a remarkable leader and mentor to young Anangu in Mimili, tirelessly advocating for much needed supports for her community. She successfully advocated for supports to build the Mimili Community church, to build a pre-school, and to start up the art centre. She has been working all her life in training and inducting non-Aboriginal staff, teaching language, teaching cultural protocol, and of course passing on her knowledge to the next generation of Anangu.

Tuppy continues to share stories through inma (dance and song) and storytelling with the next generation in her art and community leadership. She has been painting at Mimili Maku Arts since the art centre opened in 2009, capturing the stories given to her in a dynamic and intuitive way. As the current chairperson of Mimili Maku Arts, Tuppy continues to represent her art centre fiercely. Her paintings have been exhibited and celebrated nationally and internationally. She was first shortlisted for the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2018, won the Hadley’s Art Award in 2022 and proceeded to win both the Muswellbrook Art Prize for Painting and the Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize in 2023.