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Tali at Kungkayunti

This painting shows the birds eye view of the tali tali (sandhills) at Kungkayunti (Brown’s Bore). This is the country of Joe Tjakamarra Multa, the father of Douglas Multa, Agnes Multa, Lisa Multa, Alison Multa, Rephina Multa, Benita Multa and Patricia Multa and the grandfather to their children. The tali tali are a short walk from where the family lived and the children of Joe grew up.

Lisa remembers walking up the tali tali with her sister, Agnes Multa, who was the same age as her. When Lisa got married she brought her partner to see those tali tali. From the tali tali, a 360-degree view can be seen of the surrounding country. The area is abundant with bush tucker, especially bush tomatoes and bush banana.

Kungkayunti is an important place for the travelling Tjukurrpa of the ancestral Arrernte women who travelled 600 kms from Ntaria (Hermannsburg) to Kintore, past Kulpitarra (Outstation) to attend to women’s business. Kungkayunti is the place where the women first camped. On their long journey, the women stopped at Kunkayunti (Brown’s Bore) to camp, rest, eat and dance. When the women reached their destination, they danced, shared their stories and renewed their law. Those women turned into stone and can be seen today. Annual events continue today to strengthen this Tjukurrpa.

Categories: Ikuntji Artists

Name: Benita Multa

Language: Luritja

Biography:

Benita has lived within Ikuntji Community, Haasts Bluff, and Brown's Bore Outstation all her life, beginning her journey with painting in 1999. She paints the country around Haasts Bluff, Brown's Bore and Muruntji. A community of around 170 people, Ikuntji Community's distance from townships has allowed the local people to maintain many traditional practices, such as hunting and gathering bush tucker. The ancient mountain range encircling the community is beautifully reduced to its extraordinary form in Benita's works. Focussing on the relationship between land and sky, her works define the parameters of life within this, her birth country. Informed by earlier Ikuntji Art Centre artists, such as Long Tom Tjapanangka with his bold representations of his lands, and the softer works of women such as Eunice Napanangka and Narputta Nangala, Benita proves herself to be at the forefront of the Ikuntji Languru, Ikuntji's emerging artists. Educated at the community's school in Haasts Bluff, Benita continued her education at Yirrara College in Alice Springs, a six-hour round-trip from home. She has two brothers and four sisters She is married to Trevor and they have a young daughter named Claudia.

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