Tjilkamala Rockholes Fabric - Grey and White on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cm

Tjilkamala Rockholes Fabric - Grey and White on Black (Tuscany Linen) 50cmThis design by Alice Nampitjinpa Dixon depicts Takupalangu west of Kintore. This is Uta Uta Tjangalas country, which he has painted throughout his career. Nampitjinpa paints her fathers country of rockholes (puli) and sandhills (tali). There is plenty bushtucker mangilpa, which are little black seeds around. The road to Kiwirrkurra passes Takupalangu on the side. Alice describes the big swamp of Takupalangu, in her Fathers country. Takupalangu is

The tightly structured patterning of the key motifs and bold use of colour demonstrates the artist’s confidence in her individual artistic vision within a family of superlative artists – and the cultural heritage that continues to inform the myriad expressions of Western Desert artists

This design by Zakius Jack shows the ‘Wilkinkarra Story’ (Lake Mackay)

This wooden serving spoon features work by Patricia Multa

She began painting for Ikuntji Artists in 2012 and has worked as an arts worker there

growing in sand around creek beds

my mother taught me my father's Tjukurrpa in the sand

Large flocks of Galahs often move across the skies in Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff)

Kungkayunti is an important place for the travelling Tjukurrpa of the ancestral Arrernte women who travelled 600km from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) to Kintore

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Her father's brother Tjungarrayi Kingsley was one of the first painters at Papunya in 1971

Takupalangu is a big swamp filled with bush vegetables called mungilpa

This story was passed down to the artist from Old Lady Napaltjarri Morton