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Ngayuku Ngura

This painting depicts designs that evoke various parts of the landscape of Janet’s Country, Nyapari. Nyapari is located near Amata in South Australia. The repeated curved shapes represent rock formations and bush tucker. The concentric circles represent waterholes or meeting sites. If present, the U shapes represent women sitting around a waterhole. Janet has depicted spinifex bushes, bush flowers and water courses which are found in Nyapari. Janet’s work captures the immense beauty of Nyapari.

Categories: Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Janet Tjitayi

Language: Pitjantjatjara

Community: Papunya

Biography:

Janet Tjitayi is from Ernabella, an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjatjatjara/Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. She lives at Five Mile Outstation located approx. 8kms from Papunya, and has lived there with her family and late husband since the 1980s. Her mother, Angkuna is from Nyapari and her father, Kim is from Pukara in the APY lands. Janet paints her mother's country of Nyapari which is located near Amata in South Australia. Janet is a dedicated painter and has been a Director of Papunya Tjupi Arts since the beginning of 2018. 

 

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