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PINK IS PUNK: Pink Bits From Across the Land

Past exhibition
12 May - 8 June 2023
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Katjarra Butler, Tjaparru - Katjarra, 2022

Katjarra Butler Australian, Ngaanyatjarra / Pintupi, b. 1946

Tjaparru - Katjarra, 2022
acrylic on canvas
91.4 x 121.9 cm
22-219
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The Tiukurrpa at Taparru goes that the Tjukurrpa lady Kutungu was hungry and came from the West to Tjaparru looking for food. When she arrived she sat down and made...
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The Tiukurrpa at Taparru goes that the Tjukurrpa lady Kutungu was hungry and came from the West to Tjaparru looking for food. When she arrived she sat down and made damper. She mistakenly made the damper out of spinifex resin, instead of damper seeds. She consumed the spinifex resin while it was still hot, thinking it was damper. To her dismay the resin got stuck inside her. It would not move, causing Kutungu to lay down. She was sick and in pain for a long time.

Eventually Kutungu pushed out the resin in hard little balls, which look like kangaroo droppings. This poo is called mutiul. These mutiul are still at Tiaparru in the form of rocks, they are scattered all over the site. Once she recovered and still hungry Kutungu stormed off to Papuun.
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