Artist: Kawayi Nampitjinpa | Title: Womens site at Walungurru | Year: 2005 | Medium: Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen | Dimensions: 91 x 61cm
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Cat No. KN0506233
ARTWORK STORY
This painting depicts the site of Walungurru, also known as Kintore. In this painting the artist has referred to a group of women who are gathering the bush food known as pura, (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa) or bush tomato from the small shrub Solanum chippendalei. This fruit is the size of a small apricot, and after the seed have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick. The circles in this painting represent the pura.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
Kawayi Nampitjinpa is the widow of Benny Tjapaltjarri who painted regularly for Papunya Tula Artists from the late 1970’s until 2002. He was a well known ‘nangkari’ or bush doctor, who worked for many years as a traditional healer at the Pintupi Homelands Health Services clinic at Walungurru (Kintore).
Kawayi completed her first painrtings for Papunya Tula Artists in 1998. It was estimated that she was born sometime around the late 1940’s. The stories that Kawayi refers to in her work centre around the site of Pinpirrnga, a rockhole north of Kintore and close to the outstation of Desert Bore, which was established by her late husband.
REFERENCES
Papunya Tula Artists, N.T
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Cat No. KN0506233
ARTWORK STORY
This painting depicts the site of Walungurru, also known as Kintore. In this painting the artist has referred to a group of women who are gathering the bush food known as pura, (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa) or bush tomato from the small shrub Solanum chippendalei. This fruit is the size of a small apricot, and after the seed have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick. The circles in this painting represent the pura.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
Kawayi Nampitjinpa is the widow of Benny Tjapaltjarri who painted regularly for Papunya Tula Artists from the late 1970’s until 2002. He was a well known ‘nangkari’ or bush doctor, who worked for many years as a traditional healer at the Pintupi Homelands Health Services clinic at Walungurru (Kintore).
Kawayi completed her first painrtings for Papunya Tula Artists in 1998. It was estimated that she was born sometime around the late 1940’s. The stories that Kawayi refers to in her work centre around the site of Pinpirrnga, a rockhole north of Kintore and close to the outstation of Desert Bore, which was established by her late husband.
REFERENCES
Papunya Tula Artists, N.T
