Warumpinya
Warumpinya
Exhibition Dates: 14 June - 8 July, 2023
Papunya Tjupi Arts is an Aboriginal owned, community-based enterprise, representing over 100 artists. We encourage the sharing of knowledge and skills to foster self-determination and cultural development. This is done through arts practice, community activities, meaningful employment and training opportunities. All proceeds are split between the artists and the funding of further community projects. We would like to thank you for your support and welcome anyone who would like to visit.
Presented by Aboriginal & Pacific Art gallery in association with Papunya Tjupi Arts, Papunya, Northern Territory.
Kalipinypa
#106-23
Synthetic Polymer on Linen
152 x 122 cm
Dennis Nelson Tjakamarra
Puuni Brown Nungarrayi
Kapi Tjukurrpa
#97-23
Synthetic polymer on linen
183 x 183 cm
Water dreaming sites are important for the regeneration of nature. The water makes the country green and brings a lot of ‘bush tucker’ foods for the people and the animals. The heavy rain usually comes in the summer time. When the lightning can be seen at a distance, the elders will start singing to the lightning, encouraging it to bring more rain to replenish the land. In her paintings, Puuni depicts lightening, rainbows, puddles and bush flowers. In this painting the central shapes are important water or rock hole site. The lines represent the elements of a storm - wind, rain, thunderclouds and lightning. The patterns represent rain and water flowing from the waterholes and flooding the usually dry creek beds.
Kapi TjukurrpaWatson Corby Tjungarrayi
Tjunti #141-23
Synthetic Polymer on Linen
183 x 152 cm
Watson Corby Tjungarrayi
Wallaby Dreaming at Tjunti
#175-23
Synthetic Polymer on Linen
107 x 152 cm
Patricia Phillipus Napurrula
Kapi Tjukurrpa
#55-23
Synthetic Polymer on Linen
183 x 152 cm
Kapi Tjukurrpa
This painting depicts a Water Dreaming story at Kalipinypa, North-East of Kintore. The painting tells the story of a rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Today the Nakamarra, Tjakamarra, Napurrula and Tjupurrula men and women are the custodians of this important Water Dreaming story.
#107-23
Synthetic Polymer on Linen 107 x 107 cm
Karen McDonald
Kungka Tjukurrpa
Maureen Poulson Napangardi
Kapi Tjukurrpa - Kalipinypa
#289-22
Synthetic Polymer on Canvas
152 x 122 cm
Karen McDonald
Kungka Tjukurrpa
#67-23
Synthetic Polymer on Canvsas
91 x 91 cm
#191-23
Synthetic Polymer on Canvas
183
Patricia Phillipus Napurrula
Kapi Tjukurrpa
x 152 cm
Kalipinypa
#418-22
Synthetic Polymer on Linen
52 x 91cm
Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula
Kalipinypa
#478-21
Linoprint, Edition 1/1
91 x 63 cm
Leemyn Corby Tjapaltjarri
Candy Nelson Nakamarra
Kalipinypa
#194-21
Acrylic on linen
152 x 122 cm
Candy Nelson Nakamarra was born in Yuendumu in 1964, daughter to renowned Papunya Tula artist Johnny Warangkula, who taught his children how to paint whilst passing down family stories. They all paint the Kalipinypa Water Dreaming story, of the rain and hail making ceremony, which Candy coninues to explore and reinvent.
Warumpinya
Presented by Aboriginal & Pacific Art in association with Papunya
Tjupi Arts, Papunya, Northern Territory
14 June - 8 July, 2023
All images and text Copyright 2022 the artists and the community, Papunya
Tjupi, Papunya, NT.