Doris Bush Nungurrayi is an Australian Aboriginal artist (born c. 1942, in Haasts Bluff, Northern Territory). She is a painter at the Aboriginal-owned Papunya Tjupi art centre in Papunya, an Indigenous Australian community northwest of Alice Springs.
Her first solo exhibition "Doris Bush Nungarrayi: This is a Love Story" opened at Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney in 2012. Her work is held in the Maquarie Bank Collection, Artbank, and the University of Western Sydney collection.
Her father was Warlpiri and her mother Yalkutjari Nakamarra a Pintupi woman from the Kintore region whose father was ‘boss’ for the Kintore region. Doris is also known by her “bush name” Darinji. She married George Bush Tjangala, a Luritja/Amnatyerre speaking man whose family came from just west of Alice Springs. Together they had three sons. George Bush was one of Papunya Tula Artists’ original shareholders, though he did not paint much for the company apart from a brief period in the early 1980s. Doris was a familiar figure in some of the Aboriginal art galleries of Alice Springs. She became one of the most prolific and enthusias painters in the community.
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