Katu munu Tjaru - Above and Below: of Sky and Land

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REDOT FINE ART GALLERY in collaboration with Kaltjiti Arts presents

Katu munu Tjaru Above and Below: of Sky and Land

6 th May - 13 th June 2015

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Landscape Looking towards Fregon Source: Š Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.



About Kaltjiti Arts KALTJITI ARTS is located in Fregon, a remote community approximately thirty kilometres south of the majestic Musgrave Ranges of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands) in the far north west of South Australia. The nearest regional centre is Alice Springs, 500 km to the north. Uluru is 350 km west. The settlement in Fregon began as an outstation of the Ernabella mission in 1961. It was set up to provide additional employment for men by establishing a cattle station. The Anangu women who moved from Ernabella to Fregon, brought their art and craft skills with them. These included making moccasins from kangaroo leather, spinning sheep’s wool, making hooked rugs and weaving. Batik was introduced in the early 1970’s and painting in the late 1990’s. The families of Kathy Marinkga and Matjangka Norris were part of this early settlement. As soon as young girls left school, they went to work at the ‘Ernabella-Fregon’ craft centre now known as Kaltjiti Arts. Over the years Kathy and Matjangka have continued to work in diverse mediums including making punu – wood carvings, tie dyeing T-shirts, painting on silk, screen prints, lino prints, etchings and painting. Artists from Fregon have individual and unique styles. Initially, most artists were younger women or were from traditional country that was men’s business, and they did not paint tjukurpa. Instead, the women developed imagery which was based on the landscape and storytelling of everyday life called milpatjunanyi.

Landscape Near Fregon Looking West Source: © Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.


These intuitive, spontaneous images developed into colourful and complex works. The academic description of “meaningful marks or patterns� became the distinctive style known as walka. Originally used on weavings, these were transferred to all other mediums in particular batik and painting. The contemporary, abstract interpretation of the landscape, environment and culture by Kathy Maringka and Matjangka Norris reflects their aboriginal heritage and response to traditional country and culture in the paintings exhibited in Katu munu Tjaru - Above and Below: of Sky and Land. Kaltjiti Art Centre is an artist owned enterprise. The members are anangu from the local Kaltjiti Community. A seven member Anangu artist board of management oversees the primary function of the art centre which is to support its artist members with the production and marketing of their art. Expression of story through art promotes cultural maintenance, artistic, social, and economic development. In a remote area, employment is scarce and the art centre plays a vital economic role. Authenticity and provenance for the artwork is guaranteed by the art centre. Beverley Peacock Kaltjiti Arts - Manager


Kathy Maringka Working in the Painting Room Source: Š Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.


Kathy MARINGKA

Birth Date Language Place of Birth

July 1954 Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara near Ernabella

Kathy was born in the bush, near Ernabella, SA. Her father comes from the Uluru Region while her mother’s country is in Irrunytju. Her family moved into the mission at Ernabella and she went to school there, before moving to Victory Downs, a cattle station near Ernabella. Kathy worked as a Cultural Tour Guide at Uluru, guiding tourists, cleaning and washing dishes at the tourist camp. Kathy returned to Ernabella to marry. Her husband is Johnny Roberts and they have five children and numerous grandchildren. In Ernabella, Kathy started work at the art centre and learnt to sew, spin wool and make rugs. Kathy and her family moved to Fregon in the 1970s, when it was still a mission outstation. At the Fregon craft room, Kathy learnt batik techniques and painting with acrylics on canvas. Kathy’s commitment to her art is as strong as ever, in between working at Centrelink for a few years and as chairperson of the community council. As a long standing board member of Kaltjiti Arts as well as the Kaltjiti Community, it reflects her quiet yet strong leadership qualities and service to the community. In 2015, Kathy continues as a full-time artist and art worker at the Kaltjiti Art Centre. Sales are mainly to private buyers who seek out her distinctive, vibrant work. At present her speciality is Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers.

Awards 2013 Finalist, SALA Emerging Artist Award, SALA Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia.


Collections Australian Public Service Commission, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM), Adelaide, SA, Australia. Peter Bailie Art Award Collection, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Private Collections in Australia and Overseas.

Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 ‘Katu munu Tjaru - Above and Below: of Sky and Land’, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore. 2014 Desert Mob Show 2014, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Desert Colour’, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Intersections - Kaltjiti Arts Group Show’, Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘Garden of Eden’, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Art Karlsruhe - Eastern APY Lands Group Show, Art Kelch, Freiburg, BadenWürttemberg, Germany. 2013 SALA Emerging Artist Award, SALA Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2013, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia. ‘Kaltjiti 2013’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. ‘Australian Vision - NAIDOC 2013’, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore. ‘Kuwari kutju kaltjitali artists: New work from Kaltjiti’, Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia. 2012 A.P. Bond Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘My Country - Australian Aboriginal Art from the Desert to the Reef’,Vaughan Christopher Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA. Desert Mob Show 2012, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Cross Cultural Art Exchange (CCAE), Darwin, NT, Australia. ‘Tjukurpa Kunpu Nagaranyi Kaltjiti Arts Ku - Strong Paintings from Kaltjiti Artists’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. Mossenson Galleries, Perth, WA, Australia. ‘APY Land Survey Exhibition’, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘East Side Stories’, Art Kelch, Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. 2011 ‘Walytjapingku Palyantja - This Work made by Families Together’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2011, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Shalom Gamarada’, Ngiyani Yana, Sydney, NSW, Australia.


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‘Malparara - Friends Together’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. ‘Painting the Song’, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘SA Impressions Print - Etched in the Sun’, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2008, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Darlings of the Desert’, Putipula Gallery, Noosa, QLD, Australia. ‘Tjulpuntjulpunpa:Vistas of Wildflowers by Kaltjiti Artists’, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Impressions on Paper Gallery, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Tuggeranong Community Centre, Canberra, ACT, Australia. ‘APY Grandeur’, Art Mob, Hobart, TAS, Australia. Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. Peter Bailie Art Award, Flinders University Art Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Anangu Back Yard, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2005, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Manta Atunymankunytja: Looking after Country’, Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘Mina Wala: Works from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2003, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Anangu Pitjantjatjara Arts’, Arterial Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘Tjiripi Pakani: Sunrise’, Hogarth Galleries, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ‘Ku Art: Art of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara’, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg, QLD, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2002, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2000, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Kaltjiti - Warkarinytja tjukurpa ku (Continuing our Story)’, Indigenart Gallery, Perth, WA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 1998, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Kaltjiti Bizarre’, Mutitjulu Cultural Centre, Ayers Rock, NT, Australia. ‘Fabric of Life’, Port Community Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Exhibition, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 185 x 200cm KALKMA8677P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.


Detail of Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers (KALKMA8677P)




Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 153 x 153cm KALKMA9786P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 153 x 153cm KALKMA9972P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 153 x 122cm KALKMA8903P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 184 x 102cm KALKMA9334P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. Yellow flowers dominate but 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 122 x 102cm KALKMA9649P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 102 x 102cm KALKMA9640P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 102 x 102cm KALKMA10028P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.



Kathy MARINGKA

Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - Desert Wildflowers Acrylic on Belgian Linen 102 x 102cm KALKMA10046P

Kathy has painted a topographical view of the country during the wildflower season. Kathy’s impressionistic interpretation of the desert wildflowers expertly captures the magnificent and vibrant colours of the desert flora and highlights her superb brushwork and use of colour. Desert wildflowers - known collectively as Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa - is a theme Kathy continues to explore in increasing scale, achieving stunning and dramatic effects. The arid country of the *APY Lands is home to many varieties of flower species. The desert wildflowers, are particular species which carpet the landscape in a profusion of colour if the rain falls in spring. Purple and magenta parakeelya, pink and blue everlasting daisies, white and yellow daisies, lilac and purple mulla mullas, blue and purple swansonias are the most prolific. 2014 was an exceptional year for blue and purple colours. The flowers appear tiny and delicate but are tough and well adapted to the arid environment with rounded shapes low to the ground or long narrow shapes with flowers at the tips, all contributing to conserving moisture. Kathy’s abstract work features a vibrant colour palette and strong, original imagery inspired by her traditional country and culture. However, she does not paint the Tjukurpa of her birth country, as it is watiku, men’s business. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north of South Australia.


The Flowers that Inspire Kathy’s Work

Paper Daisies

Kathy Maringka Painting at Kaltjiti Arts

Billy Buttons

Mulla Mullas


Poached Egg Daisies

Kathy Maringka with Victoria Wattle in Full Flower

Source: Š Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.

Desert Daisy


Matjangka (Nyukana) Norris with Finished Painting Source: Š Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.


Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Birth Date Language Place of Birth

January 1956 Pitjantjatjara Victory Downs Station

Matjangka Norris is from Watinuma on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands, 350km SE of Uluru. She works in two art forms which are painting and batik. Examples of her batik works can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University Collections. Matjangka is an energetic, prolific and versatile artist who has worked in both batik and acrylic paintings. Her work features a range of subjects including the constellations, traditional country, bush foods and mamu. Her versatility is evident in the range of styles she uses from her abstract seed paintings to those that show her creative and humorous personality and feature quirky imagery such as mamu (spirit monsters). She is famous for dancing this inma which is humorous but also scares the children. At present, she works full-time as a health worker at the Fregon clinic. Creating art is second nature to Matjangka and she is always in and out of the Kaltjiti art centre in her spare time with a painting in progress. Matjangka was born at Victory Downs Station, just on the Northern Territory border, north of Fregon. She moved to Ernabella with her family when she was a tjitji pulka (big girl) and went to the mission school. Matjangka and her family moved to Fregon where she finished her schooling. She has worked as a teacher at the Fregon school and in the Fregon store.

Collections National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne,VIC, Australia. South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Flinders University Art Museum (FUAM), Adelaide, SA, Australia. Artbank, Sydney, NSW, Australia.


Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 ‘Katu munu Tjaru - Above and Below: Of Sky and Land’, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore. 2014 Desert Mob Show 2014, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Desert Colour’, Talapi Gallery, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Intersections - Kaltjiti Arts Group Show’, Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Art Karlsruhe - Eastern APY Lands Group Show, Art Kelch, Freiburg, BadenWürttemberg, Germany. 2013 ‘Kaltjiti 2013’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. ‘Kunmanara: Kaljiti Arts’, Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin, NT, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2013, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Kaltjiti 2013’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. ‘Australian Vision - NAIDOC 2013’, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore. ‘Kuwari kutju kaltjitali artists: New work from Kaltjiti’, Marshall Arts, Adelaide, SA, Australia. McCulloch & McCulloch, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. 2012 A.P. Bond Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2012, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. Cross Cultural Art Exchange (CCAE), Darwin, NT, Australia. ‘Tjukurpa Kunpu Nagaranyi Kaltjiti Arts Ku - Strong Paintings from Kaltjiti Artists’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. 2011 ‘Shalom Gamarada’, Ngiyani Yana, Sydney, NSW, Australia. ‘Spirit of Country: Land and Life’, Seymour College Exhibition, Adelaide, SA, Australia. 2010 Desert Mob Show 2010, Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Painters of Fregon’, Raft Art Space, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. 2008 ‘SA Impressions Print - Etched in the Sun’, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘Across the desert: Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia’, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Melbourne,VIC, Australia. 2007 Spoleto Festival, Italy. 2007 Desert Mob Show 2007, Araluen Cultural Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘APY Grandeur’, Art Mob, Hobart, TAS, Australia. 2006 Anangu Backyard Exhibition, Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. 2005 Anangu Backyard Exhibition: the art of bush foods, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 2005, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. 2004 ‘Manta Atunymankunytja: Looking after Country’, Flinders University City Gallery,


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Adelaide, SA, Australia. International Print Fair in conjunction with Basil Hall Editions, Melbourne,VIC, Australia. ‘Anangu Pitjantjatjara Arts’, Arterial Gallery, Adelaide, SA, Australia. ‘Mina Wala: Works from the Anangu Pitjantjatjara’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Ku Art: Art of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara’, Bundaberg Arts Centre, Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia. ‘Palupurunypa Palu Kutjupa: Same But Different’, SAn Touring Exhibitions Program, various venues in South Australia. Desert Mob Show 2000, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Desart Exhibition - Straight From the Heart’, Tandanya/Fringe Festival, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Desert Mob Show 1998, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Kaltjiti Bizarre’, Mutitjulu Cultural Centre, Ayers Rock, NT, Australia. ‘Same But Different’, NewLand Gallery, Adelaide, SAn Country Arts Trust, SA, Australia. Corkwood Festival, Alice Springs, NT, Australia. ‘Raiki Wara: Long Cloth’, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV),VIC, Australia.



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Mungangka Kililpi - Night Time Stars Acrylic on Belgian Linen 183 x 200cm KALNNO9447P

Matjangka has depicted the infinite and breathtakingly beautiful night sky that is omnipresent over the desert country of the *APY lands. Her detailed dotting creates an expansive field of stars on a clear night. A dynamic and versatile artist, painting is Matjangka’s main art form. She is also well-known as a traditional dancer and excelled in the medium of batik. Examples of her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University of South Australia. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north-west of South Australia


Detail of Mungangka Kililpi - Night Time Stars (KALNNO9447P)




Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Tjarka Munu Milkali - Blood and Bones Acrylic on Belgian Linen 183 x 122cm KALNNO9557P

“These are the blood and bones of kamula, papa, malu, rabbitah, kalaya - camels, dogs, kangaroos, rabbits, emus, all the same.” In spite of the intense nature of this topic, there is a dynamic elegance to this work. The subject matter of Blood and Bones is perhaps an indirect way of dealing with loss. Matjangka’s husband passed away in 2014 shortly before these paintings were created. As a longstanding health-worker at the Fregon clinic, Matjangka deals with a greater amount of ’blood and bones’ than most artists.



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Tjarka Munu Milkali - Blood and Bones Acrylic on Belgian Linen 183 x 120cm KALNNO9570P

“These are the blood and bones of kamula, papa, malu, rabbitah, kalaya - camels, dogs, kangaroos, rabbits, emus, all the same.” In spite of the intense nature of this topic, there is a dynamic elegance to this work. The subject matter of Blood and Bones is perhaps an indirect way of dealing with loss. Matjangka’s husband passed away in 2014 shortly before these paintings were created. As a longstanding health-worker at the Fregon clinic, Matjangka deals with a greater amount of ’blood and bones’ than most artists.



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Waru Pulka - Big Bush Fire Acrylic on Belgian Linen 153 x 122cm KALNNO9944P

“Mina Pitjanyi - the rain is coming behind the bushfire - mala, later. The rain put out the fire caused by the lightning.� Highly expressive in her mark-making, the atmosphere of a bushfire, a huge force of nature, is captured with great energy borne out of experience. Flames, smoke and then the rain is a highly-charged natural event in traditional country. It is also a time of renewal. The waterholes fill up after the rain, seeds are activated to germinate and excess fuel reduced. Summer is the time for bushfires, which was also the time this was painted.



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Waru Pulka - Big Bush Fire Acrylic on Belgian Linen 122 x 102cm KALNNO9809P

“Mina Pitjanyi - the rain is coming behind the bushfire - mala, later. The rain put out the fire caused by the lightning.� Highly expressive in her mark-making, the atmosphere of a bushfire, a huge force of nature, is captured with great energy borne out of experience. Flames, smoke and then the rain is a highly-charged natural event in traditional country. It is also a time of renewal. The waterholes fill up after the rain, seeds are activated to germinate and excess fuel reduced. Summer is the time for bushfires.



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Mungangka Kililpi - Night Time Stars Acrylic on Belgian Linen 122 x 102cm KALNNO9982P

Matjangka has depicted the infinite and breathtakingly beautiful night sky that is omnipresent over the desert country of the *APY lands. Her detailed dotting creates an expansive field of stars on a clear night. A dynamic and versatile artist, painting is Matjangka’s main art form. She is also well-known as a traditional dancer and excelled in the medium of batik. Examples of her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University of South Australia. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north-west of South Australia



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Milky Way Acrylic on Belgian Linen 102 x 102cm KALNNO10033P

Matjangka has depicted the expansive night sky that is omnipresent in the country of the *APY lands. Her detailed dotting creates an expansive field of stars. This is the Milky Way where the Kungkarangkalpa Tjukurpa depicts the seven sisters when they have flown up into the Milky Way and can be seen as the star cluster known as the Pleiades or seven sisters. A dynamic and versatile artist, painting is Matjangka’s main art form. She is also well-known as a traditional dancer and excelled in the medium of batik. Examples of her work can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University of South Australia. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north-west of South Australia.



Matjangka (Nyukana) NORRIS

Mai Putitja - Bush Foods Acrylic on Canvas 122 x 61cm KALNNO9925P

The seemingly ordinary subject of bush foods, indigenous to the *APY Lands, is a strong reflection of Matjangka’s keen sense of place and connection to traditional indigenous culture and country. It is also her experience and in her memory that these were valuable sources of food and therefore survival for indigenous people in nomadic times. Quandongs or native peach - Wayanu (santalum acuminatum): The tart-tasting, bright red fruits from a small tree enclose a round pitted stone the size of a marble which contains an edible kernel. Desert Raisin - Kampurarpa (solanum centale): This sticky, highly nutritious fruit is yellow when ripe, drying to a chocolate brown colour with a raisin-like texture. “Sugar Leaf” - Ngapari: A white sweet sap deposited on the surface of the leaves of the red river gum (eucalyptus camaldulensis) by a scale insect and eaten like a sweet or lolly. *Anangu Pitjantjatjara/Yankunytjatjara Lands in the far north-west of South Australia.


Sunset near Fregon Source: Š Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.



In collaboration with

and with special thanks to

Matjangka (Nyukana) Norris & Kathy Maringka outside Kaltjiti Arts Studio Source: Š Image courtesy of Kaltjiti Arts. Photographer AD Peacock.


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