Bambatu Campbell Napangardi was born in Winron, Pintupi country, across the Western Australian border, east of Kiwirrkura.
Bambatu lived apart from white people with her family in the bush until her teens, living a raditional aboriginal life with her family, hunting and living off the land.

While visiting relatives in Balgo she met Dini Campbell Tjampitjinpa, they later married. Dini Campbell’s older brother, Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, was one of the original Aboriginal artists painting in Papunya.

Bambatu Napangardi was taught to paint by her husband, and now she paints her own Dreamtime stories passed on to her by her both her parents as well as her husband, Dini Campbell Tjampitjinpa.

Her paintings are of Aboriginal women’s ceremonies and her works depict the traditional symbols of the central desert. Her linear works are bold and strong which reflect the techniques taught to her by Dini Campbell, typical of artists from Kintore and Papuyna