Rita Watson Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1964
Rita Watson Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. 1964
                                Irlupa, 2022
                            
                                    acrylic on canvas
122 x 91 cm
22-187
                                    
                                   This is a story about Irlupa, a site near Papulankatja in Western Australia, a place where Western Ngaayatjara and east earn Pitjantjatjara dielects diverge. This is Rita's father's ngurra (camp...
                        
                    
                                                    This is a story about Irlupa, a site near Papulankatja in Western Australia, a place where Western Ngaayatjara and east earn Pitjantjatjara dielects diverge.
This is Rita's father's ngurra (camp and country) where she spent time as young person and is home to many important tjukurpa (dreaming) sites and stories and inma (songs) for Anangu in this area.
Rita paints the features of his camp such as tjukula (rockholes), kalyan kalyan (Honey grevilla plant), tjanpi (spinifex), Kampurarpa (Bush Tomatoes), Anangu (people), pun (trees) and wiltja (windbreaks) in an iconographic milpajunanyi (traditional sand drawing) style.
                    
                This is Rita's father's ngurra (camp and country) where she spent time as young person and is home to many important tjukurpa (dreaming) sites and stories and inma (songs) for Anangu in this area.
Rita paints the features of his camp such as tjukula (rockholes), kalyan kalyan (Honey grevilla plant), tjanpi (spinifex), Kampurarpa (Bush Tomatoes), Anangu (people), pun (trees) and wiltja (windbreaks) in an iconographic milpajunanyi (traditional sand drawing) style.
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