Betty Pula Morton

Betty Pula Morton was an Australian Aboriginal artist from the Alyawarre language group. She was born in MacDonald Downs Station in 1957 and grew up in Irrultja in the Utopia region north‑east of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. Her paintings depicted bush medicine and Country, stories she had inherited from her father and that are deeply connected to her land and culture.

Betty lived in Ampilatwatja with her family, including her daughter Joycie Morton and granddaughter Nikita Inkamala, both of whom also became artists continuing the bush medicine story in their work.

Her artwork was included in exhibitions and art prizes in Australia and internationally, and in 2021 she won the First Nations category of the inaugural Annual National Capital Art Prize, affirming her standing as a respected senior artist.