#papunya

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These tiny circles in Aboriginal dot

paintings carry journeys, sacred places and generations of story. Originating around Papunya in the early 1970s, this style became a way for Indigenous artists to map their land, their Country, and their connection to ancestors.

Kumuntjai Napurrula was born in 1945 at Papunya, 200 kilometres West of Alice Springs. She is the daughter of Tupa Tjakamarra (now deceased) and Tjunkiya Napatljarri. Her mother, Tjunkayi Napaltjarri, was a Pintupi/Luritja woman from Yumari who also became an artist of public repute. Her mother ‘came in’ from the drought-stricken Pintupi/Lurjita country seeking refuge and rations in the remote community of Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji). Along with her extended family, she was settled at Papunya, where Mitjili was born.