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Piltati

There were two sisters who married two brothers and they all lived together. One day the women went wandering and they went such a long way that they forgot about their husbands. Back at the camp, the two husbands were thinking, ‘Where are our wives?’ and they decided to go looking for them. One brother said to the other, ‘What should we become to go looking for them?’ and the other brother said ‘Why don’t we become Rainbow Serpents?’ And they travelled in the sky looking down for their wives. Finally they see them hunting for carpet snakes and they put something in the hole where the women were digging. The women find it and then dig another hole and once again the men have put something in there. And this is how the men lure the women back to Piltati where the men make the sisters transform into Wanampi, swallow them and keep .them in their throats. All four of them live together in the waterhole and still live there today.

Categories: Ernabella Arts Inc.

Name: Tjimpuna Williams

Language: Pitjantjatjara

Community: Pukatja

Biography:

Tjimpuna is a well-established Ernabella artist who has worked in many different mediums including painting, linocut prints and batik, but her chosen field is ceramics.

Tjimpuna uses traditional patterns that relate to tjulpun-tjulpunpa (wild or desert flower), rockhole (tjukula), sand dune (tali) and also paints the Tjukurpa of her mother's country - Piltati, near Kanpi in the APY Lands. Other pieces are her personal walka or design. These designs are drawn from batik patterns and from her own interpretation of images from country and ceremony.

Tjimpuna and Derek Thompson were awarded a grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and in 2013 undertook a big pot workshop in Jingdezhen, China. This body of work was exhibited at Sydney's prestigious Sabbia Gallery. Tjimpuna has also travelled to Korea and Singapore for her art practice. In 2015 Tjimpuna and Derek returned to Jingdezhen and their work from that experience was exhibited with Sabbia Gallery and at the Australian Ceramic Triennale in Canberra.

Tjimpuna's artwork has been acquired for the collections of the National Museum of Australia, Australian National Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery and Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan.

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