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Glenda Kapi Tjukurrpa

The painting depicts designs associated with Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a site northwest of Kintore. The Tjukurrpa tells of an important rain making ceremony to invoke the elements. It is a powerful storm bringing on the lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending its deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling rock holes, clay pans and creeks. It has the power to create new life and growth upon the land.

In this painting Glenda has used the larger shapes to depict tali (sand hills) at the site of Kalipinypa. She has also used dots to represent Akatjurra (bush tomato) that have come to life after the rain. 

Categories: Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation

Name: Glenda Poulson

Community: Papunya

Biography:

Glenda Napangardi Poulson and her sisters Alice and Maureen live together in Papunya where they also paint together as Artists represented by Papunya Tjupi. 

The sisters' older brother Brogas Tjapangarti, who now lives in Alice Springs, painted for Papunya Tula Artists in the 1970s and early 1980s. Their father was Jimmy Tjukurrpa, a Ngaliya man whose country was Kunatjarri and Pikilyi. Their mother was Pilyari Napurrula, a sister of Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula, who shared with him country around Ilpilli, Kalipinypa and Tjikari which Glenda and her siblings also share.

Glenda is a dedicated Grandmother and takes pride in looking after her family. She also currently works both at the school and at Papunya Tjupi. Glenda manages to fit in time to spend at the Art Centre working and adapting her shaped designs representing her main dreaming story of Kalipinypa, a water dreaming site west of Kintore. 

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