Daisy Loongkoonan (c. 1910 – 2018) era uma artista aborígine australiana e idosa do povo Nyikina da região centro-oeste de Kimberley, na Austrália Ocidental. Loongkoonan nasceu em Mount Anderson, perto do rio Fitzroy...
Her parents worked on cattle stations, and as she grew up, Loongkoonan followed them, mustering sheep and cooking in stock camps.
Later she rode horses and mustered cattle.
During the wet season, Loongkoonan would follow her people to their traditional lands, where they would undergo ceremony and collect bush foods, medicines and the prized 'limmiri' (spinifex wax).
Loongkoonan used this time to go footwalking around the 133,000 hectares of land. She believed that "Footwalking is the proper [only] way to learn about country and remember it.”
In 2005 Loongkoonan began painting through the arts workshop Manambarra Aboriginal Artists in Derby, Western Australia.
Her work has been influential in inspiring a new generation of Nyikina artists, including Peggy Wassi. Loongkoonan died in 2018
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