Alison grew up at Pukatja and lived here with her family before they all moved to Amata around 1990. While at school and then at Ernabella Arts, Alison first learnt painting and batik. In the 1980s she travelled to the Tiwi Islands with several other Ernabella women to teach batik to the Tiwi artists there.
In late 2006 Alison began to paint at Tjala Arts in Amata. Her mother (Betty Munti) was a highly regarded artist working there. Alison quickly followed in her footsteps and in 2011 was a finalist in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Awards (the Telstras) and her painting was voted ‘People’s Choice.’
From 2011 she has worked between the Ernabella and Tjala studios. At Ernabella she is the leader of a collaborative painting program teaching younger and emerging artists valuable painting skills through inclusive collaborative paintings.
