The Seven Sisters Creation Story is of great significance to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people. The sisters travelled a long time ago through the artist's traditional country in South Australia's North West and the south west corner of the Northern Territory. A man called Wati Nyiru was chasing the sisters trying to court one of […]
Minyma tjuta ankupai putikutu piti wanatjara. Paluru tjana mai kutjupa kutjupa tjuta mantjilpai tjitji tjutaku. Waltjangku wirura palyara nyinantjaku.' The women go out into the bush with their bowls and digging sticks. They collect all sorts of bush foods for the children. Some of the delicious fruits found out bush include: Unturngu – The bush banana. It […]
The Mala (rufous hare-wallaby) People were conducting their inma (ceremony) at Uluru. An invitation came from the west, to join another inma. This was not possible, as the ceremony had begun, and could not be stopped. So the people out west created an evil spirit, a huge devil dog called Kurpany to destroy the Mala […]
This is about Anangu (people) history, jinna, tracks. Anangu jinna (footprints) have marked the earth for thousands of years long before piranpa (whitefella) came. Piranpa jinna came into Australia after all these years later. You can see Anangu and animal jinna in this painting. Kuniya (snake) makes this big, long track when they travel […]
In this painting the artist has depicted Minyma Kutjara (two women). This is the Creation Law Story of the two women who travelled through the artist's ancestral country on a long journey which stretches across the Central Desert of Australia. Like all the Creation Ancestors, the two women formed parts of the landscape and left […]
There are many types of waterholes that Anangu can use and they depend on their intimate knowledge of the environment to know where and when they will find water. Sometimes a soakage will have dried up and the women must use their digging sticks to find the water under the surface. They transport it back […]
This Tjukurpa water creator python, tjukurpa owns all of this land and water. This is an exploration with bottle work, I also put Puli (rock) onto here.
The Seven Sisters Creation Story is of great significance to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people. The sisters travelled a long time ago through the artist's traditional country in South Australia's North West and the south west corner of the Northern Territory. A man called Wati Nyiru was chasing the sisters trying to court one of […]
“It is important for people to understand; to understand Anangu (people of the Central Desert region of Australia), to understand Tjukurpa (our faith). To understand history. This book will be history. If it’s read, maybe people will understand. We need to write it all down. We can work together. Otherwise there’s a big wall in […]
