Papulankutja Artists

Rockholes & Spinifex Narelle Holland Here Narelle shows her Great Grand parents country and it’s beauty, featuring many Rockholes; Lilyirra, Ngatun, Walu, Multju, Karrpillia and Likarpullar.

Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion).  The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…

Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (Seven Sisters / Pleiades) is one of the most significant Tjukurrpa across the Western and Central Deserts. It is part of a vast international story, with versions existing in many First Nations cultures around the world. In the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, the story is anchored in specific Read more…

Kungkarrangkalpa (Seven Sisters) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters or Pleaides) is significant Tjukurrpa (dreamtime). Its origins you may be familiar with in astronomy and its connection to ‘Wati Nyiru’ (Magic Man or Orion).  The roots of this dreaming stems across indigenous groups around the world. The Australian Aboriginal songline is one Read more…

Yirmangka – Yirmangka ( Bush Medicine) This is from a series of small works from our main artists depiocting the love of collecting from the bush traditional medicines and tucker.

Women collecting bush foods The Anangu people travelled vast desert landscapes, following the seasons for food and shelter, deeply attuned to the rhythms of the land. This resilience and wisdom embedded in traditional bush foods that sustained them across generations. Maku (Witchety Grubs), with their creamy, nutty flavour, represent survival Read more…

Multju – Nora’s family’s country Nora begins her stories with simple lines, drawn on paper, canvas, or etched into the red earth, gradually transforming into rich visual narratives of her homeland, Multju. This area, marked by significant rock-holes. where she was born is  Mulga country and a great place to Read more…

Tjitji kutjarra – Two boys This is the story of the two boys, though some say it was two brothers or a brother and sister, living around Mantamaru (Jameson). One day they saw the track of a big snake, they followed and eventually caught and ate. Unbeknownst, the brothers they had eaten a spirit Read more…

‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters / Pleiades) ‘Kungkarrangkalpa’ (The Seven Sisters / Pleiades) is an important Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) across the Ngaanyatjarra Lands. Many families hold knowledge for different parts of this story, and each community paints its own chapter according to Country and ancestral responsibility. Angela’s paintings focus on the celestial Read more…

Wati Kutjarra – Janet Forbes This is the story of two powerful magicians who came to the Ngaanyatjarra Lands from far away to the west; ‘These two men are always together, always camping together. They do all sorts of tricks when they travel across the lands as they stop from Read more…