Wati Kauyala, 2012

? burnt design on wood

40 x 40 cm (total)

$130

Provenance: Maruku Arts, Uluru, NT
Artwork story: Niningka was born in the bush in 1947 at a place north of Areyonga in the Northern Territory. Her parents had previously come to live at Ernabella but were on holiday on foot, as people would do every year still at that time. She grew up at Ernabella and attended school there. After school she worked at the Ernabella Mission craft room, where Winnifred Hilliard taught her how to spin sheep's wool and weave rugs, and later to make batik. Nininka moved to Kalka (South Australia) and woked at the Kalka Women's Centre after it was set up by the NPY Women's Council in 1997. Niningka has been a pioneering weaver and sculptor since 1995, and started to emerge as a notable basket weaver in 1998. She and Yaritji Connelly travelled to Minyerri near Katherine in 2002 to re-teach Aboriginal women there the art of coiled basketry. (Short St Gallery)

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b. 1945

? burnt design on wood

40 x 40 cm (total)

$130

Provenance: Maruku Arts, Uluru, NT
Artwork story: Niningka was born in the bush in 1947 at a place north of Areyonga in the Northern Territory. Her parents had previously come to live at Ernabella but were on holiday on foot, as people would do every year still at that time. She grew up at Ernabella and attended school there. After school she worked at the Ernabella Mission craft room, where Winnifred Hilliard taught her how to spin sheep's wool and weave rugs, and later to make batik. Nininka moved to Kalka (South Australia) and woked at the Kalka Women's Centre after it was set up by the NPY Women's Council in 1997. Niningka has been a pioneering weaver and sculptor since 1995, and started to emerge as a notable basket weaver in 1998. She and Yaritji Connelly travelled to Minyerri near Katherine in 2002 to re-teach Aboriginal women there the art of coiled basketry. (Short St Gallery)