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Waru at Watarru

This painting shows the Waru Tjukurrpa (Fire Dreaming). The place for this Dreaming is Watarru, near Kanpi and Piplitjara in South Australia, near Maralinga and Ochre Valley.

It shows the two Jangala were travelling from Yuendumu down south and they were carrying the fire from Yuendumu. They threw the fire stick at Watarru in the ground and created a big hole and mountain at Watarru. The two Jangalas created everything at Watarru, afterwards they went back to Yuendumu.

They left a lot of Ngangkeri spirits in this place, which all the children hold.

It is a big Dreaming from Yuendumu, called Warlukurlangu.

Categories: Ikuntji Artists

Name: Imatjala Pollard

Community: Nyapari

Biography:

Imantjala Pollard is the sister of Anne Dixon and Beryl Jimmy and the daughter of Wipana Minyintiri Muwitja. Imatjala is a Pitjantjatjara woman living at the community settlement of Watarru, in the far northwest of South Australia, part of an area referred to as the Western desert.

Imitjala was born at Tjatja. A homeland in the APY Lands where she grew up. Later Imitjala moved with her family to Watarru, where Imitjala’s late mother, Wipana Jimmy a senior Tjungu Palya Artist helped to establish Watarru as a permanent community.

Imitjala has two daughters and five grandchildren. 

Imatjala often visits family at Ikuntji/Haasts Bluff where she works on stunning collaborative family artworks. 

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