Papunya Tjupi Art Centre Aboriginal Corporation

Doris Bush- Pilkati anta rumiya (Snake and goanna) Snake this one, eating, here, at the water. This mob over there are stabbing it with a spear. He’s trying to bite and eat that one over there. And that over there is coming to look at him, that one. This one, he’s watching, Read more…

Glenda Kapi Tjukurrpa The painting depicts designs associated with Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, a site northwest of Kintore. 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 rejuvenate Read more…

Flora Brown Mina Mina Tjukurrpa (Lake Mackay Dreaming) Mina Mina is a salt lake place between Nyrrapi and Kunatjarryi. It is snake country. A place full of lightning and thunder. The language of the country is Yanama, and if you speak a different language the snakes will eat you. The Read more…

Doris Bush- Pilkati anta rumiya (Snake and goanna) Snake this one, eating, here, at the water. This mob over there are stabbing it with a spear. He’s trying to bite and eat that one over there. And that over there is coming to look at him, that one. This one, he’s watching, Read more…

Simon Yungut – 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 Read more…

ada andy Kapi Tjukurrpa This painting tells one of many water dreamings from the Papunya area. The circles represent important water or rock hole sites. The background design symbolises the landscape after the rains when the earth has been replenished with new growth. The rock holes collect the water during the Read more…

Punata Stockman- Yala (Sweet Potato) In this painting Punata has painted the bush food Yala (Sweet Potato) that is found in the sand dunes near her country Mt Denison. Her father Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri also painted the country around Mt Denison. Women dig for for the sweet potato in the sand Read more…