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Kukula McDonald – Red Bums
In this painting Kukula has depicted a mob of Red-tailed black cockatoos flying over the Papunya landscape. Kukula refers to them as “Red Bums”.
Categories: Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation
Name: Kukula McDonald
Community: Papunya
Biography:
Kukula is a young Luritja woman from Papunya who has been painting at the Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists Studio since 2002, and paints with Papunya Tjupi Arts occasionally. Kukula predominantly paints Red Tailed Black Cockatoos and knows where to find “big mobs” of them in the Central and Western Deserts. Kukula has become known for these Red Tailed Black Cockatoos, which she incorporates into the landscape of Papunya, big mobs or a lone individual soaring in the sky.
