Description

55.9cm x 91.4m: acrylic on canvas

Artwork is sold unstretched

Jillian Giles

Jillian grew up in Kaltukatjara (Docker River) with her parents and her five siblings. She went to school in Alice Springs. She learned to paint from her mother the Tjukurrpa of the Tjukurla area. She has been living in painting both Alice Springs and across the Ngaanyatjarra lands in recent years, and visits family in Tjukurla where she paints with the Tjarlirli artists.

Minyma Tjukurla

The young women are travelling around the country near Tjukurla with the older ladies. They are learning many things about where to collect special grasses and flowers and other types of bush tucker.