Cassandra Algy is a Gurindji woman and the senior artworker at Karungkarni Art. Since 2005, Cassandra has worked with Felicity Meakins on multiple Gurindji and Gurindji Kriol language projects, which have produced books, posters, short films and other language resources for her community at Kalkaringi. They were joint winners of the 2021 Australia Museum Eureka Award for Interdisciplinary Research, the 2018 Northern Territory Land Resource Management (NT LRM) award for the Gurindji ethnobiology poster series, the 2019 Language Section of the national ICTV awards for 15 short Gurindji sign language films, and the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Tamarra: A Story of Termites on Gurindji Country.
