Description

40.6cm x 55.9cm: acrylic on canvas

Artwork is sold unstretched

Miriam Kulitja Rennie

Miriam is a young Pitjantjatjara artist from Kaltukatjara (Docker River) community. She was born in Areyonga, which is her mother and father’s country. She now lives in Docker River with her family, including her two children. Miriam learnt to paint from her older sister and aunty, who showed her the right way to paint her stories.

Kungka Kutjara

Miriam paints tjukurpa from her Tjammu (uncle’s) country called Kungka Kutjara, or two sisters. This is a very large and important story for many women artists around Kaltukatjara. The part of the story Miriam depicts is the episode where the two sisters were at Wingellina (Irrunytju) across the WA border. The undulating lines which stretch across the surface of Miriam’s works represent the puli (huge rock formations) of the Kungka Kutjara sites.