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MARY & MUNA: Muna Kulyuru & Mary Katajuku Pan

Past exhibition
1 - 21 September 2023
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Muna Kulyuru, Ngayuku ngura - My Country, 2023

Muna Kulyuru Pitjantjatjara, Australian, b. 1964

Ngayuku ngura - My Country, 2023
acrylic on linen
152.5 x 122 cm
311-23
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'Ngayulu paintamilalpai ngayuku ngunytjuku Ngura munu Tjukurpa minyma tjutatjara. (l paint my mother's Country and its stories about many women). - Muna Kulyuru 2023 In this painting Muna Kulyuru has...
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"Ngayulu paintamilalpai ngayuku ngunytjuku Ngura munu Tjukurpa minyma tjutatjara. (l paint my mother's Country and its stories about many women). - Muna Kulyuru 2023

In this painting Muna Kulyuru has painted her mother's father's country, Watarru, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. Muna depicts her Tjamu's (grandfather's) Country and the Tjukurpa (Dreaming) that animates it, relaying the narrative of minyma tjuta Tjukurpa— the story of many women — as it relates to the fire Tjukurpa, capturing their journeys as they travel across the Country, singing, dancing, and creating the landscape as they go.

Through rich patchworks of dots and intersecting lines Muna renders the rock formations and landmarks of her Tjamu's Country in stretching swathes of vibrant colour and form, punctuated with iconography and intersecting lines relating to inma (ceremonial dance) and ancestral stories.
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