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Kalinykalinypa Tjukurrpa

Beyula is telling the story of the Kalinykalinypa or desert grevillea flower, a favourite bush food for Anangu people and quite a delicacy. Kalinykalinypa grows in the sandy soils on the plains. The beautiful orange coloured flowers are picked early in the morning and placed in a billycan of water to create ‘honeywater’ (cordial) or sucked straight off the branch for their sweet honey dew. More often than not Anangu move from flower to flower, bending the flowers towards them so they can suck the nectar rather than picking it.

Categories: Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Beyula Puntungka Napanangka

Language: Luritja

Community: Papunya

Biography:

Beylua Puntungka Napanangka was born in Papunya in 1966, daughter of pioneer Papunya Tula Artist Limpi Tjapangati. From her father, Beyula inherited rights to the country near the Murini Range which Beyula often depicted in her early paintings. She also inherited a bushfire story, Kali Karringpa, from her grandmother which was her first story to paint. Her mother’s Dreaming place was the Dingo Dreaming site of Nyumanu near Kintore. 

These days Beyula paints her own dramatic version of the Honey Grevillea Dreaming story inherited from her grandfather. The works’ strength lies in the abstracted organic lines that forms an immersive space where the viewer can feel and see the grevillea all at once. Beyula is one of Papunya Tjupi’s most senior and consistent artists.

Finalist of the Telstra NATSIAA (2016), John Fries Award (2018) and Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize (2019), her work is held in the National Gallery of Australia Collection, Artbank Collection, RMIT University Art Collection, Knoblauch Collection and University of Queensland International Education Services Collection.

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