Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation

Anangu Tjuta at Nyunmanu & Papa Tjukurrpa This work is about both a memory Doris has and a Tjukurrpa (dreaming) story, of a place called Nyunmanu. Doris lived here for many years. The memory is ‘Anangu tjuta at Nyunmanu’ – lots people living in a cave. Watis (men), kungkas & pipirri (children). There Read more…

Kalipinypa The painting depicts designs associated with Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa a site northwest of Sandy Blight Junction, Western Australia.The Tjukurrpa tells of an important rain making ceremony to invoke the elements. It is a powerful storm bringing on the lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending its deluge to Read more…

Kungka Tjukurrpa at Ilpilli This painting represents the sacred site of Ilpilli, Napurrula’s country, which is located between Mt Liebig and Kintore. Karen’s ancestors (The Napurrula women) were travelling across land searching for water and came upon this site. They discovered rockholes with water and a creek, which meant there Read more…

Ngayuku Ngura This painting depicts designs that evoke various parts of the landscape of Janet’s Country, Nyapari. Nyapari is located near Amata in South Australia. The repeated curved shapes represent rock formations and bush tucker. The concentric circles represent waterholes or meeting sites. If present, the U shapes represent women Read more…

Yunala Tjukurrpa (Bush Carrot) In this painting Adrian depicts the Yunala Tjukurrpa, a story passed down from his father. The one continuous line that intricately weaves across the canvas represents the roots hidden underground. The four pronged shapes are the grass that push up to signal where to dig.  Through Read more…

Papa Tjukurrpa – Nyumannu Nyunmanu is a Dingo Dreaming site just to the south east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore in the Northern Territory. Most of the dingoes and their pups from this place rose up into the sky and became stars. However, the ancestral mother Dingo and Read more…

Four Dreamings In this work Carbiene depicts four dreaming stories which he inherited from his father. These tjukurrpa are associated with a series of waterholes running between Docker River and Kata Tjuta. Specifically, it includes four important sites: Petermann Ranges, Docker River, Kalaya Murrpu (Blood’s Range) and Mulyayti near Kata Tjuta.  As a young man, Read more…

Untitled Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design. Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Western Desert. The Tingari is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Ancestors moved Read more…

Tingari Simon’s paintings depict the dreaming stories and the travels of the Tingari, using the traditional concentric circle and line design. Tingari refers to the Dreaming and its Laws for the Pintupi language group of the Central Western Desert. The Tingari is the Creation era when the Dreamtime Ancestors moved Read more…