Therese Ryder (original) (raw)

Therese Ryder (born 1946) (skin name: Ngale – Perrule) is an Eastern Arrernte artist from Ltyentye Apurte Community, 82 km south east of Alice Springs. Ryder, part of the Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre, is primarily a landscape artist and paints her traditional lands in the Central Desert. Ryder is also a linguist who significantly contributed to the "Central and Eastern Arrernte Dictionary" (1994) and also authored a book "Ayeye thipe-akerte: Arrernte stories about birds" (2017).