Description

40.6cm x 101.5cm: acrylic on canvas

Artwork is sold unstretched

Josephine Napurrula

Josephine was born in the bush, close to the later-established Tjukurla community. She is the daughter of Kulata (Kuliti) Tjakamarra, who was from Payarrnganya and Kuruyultu, near Tjukurla, and his wife Mayaru, who was from Walungurru (Kintore).

Josephine began painting with the other Napurrulas in the painting camps at Haasts Bluff run by the Papunya Tula company in the late 1990s. This was the first generation of female artists to paint in the Western Desert.

Her works are containers of power, imbued with strong cultural knowledge.

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. This knowledge is recorded in the motifs and symbols which have been used in Western Desert visual culture for countless generations, and which the artists now deploy in the new medium of acrylic painting.