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WALANGKURA NAPANANGKA (born circa 1946)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
183 x 153 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Ngaminya, just to the south-west of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia. During mythological times a group of ancestral women camped at this site gathering the edible berries known as kampurarrpa (desert raisin) from the small shrub Solanum Centrale, and pura (bush tomato) from the shrub Solanum Chippendalei. Kampurarrpa berries can be eaten directly from the plant but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked on the coals as a type of damper, while pura are the size of an apricot, and once the seeds have been removed, can be stored for some time by threading the fruit onto skewers made from small straight sticks. The women had travelled from Marrapinti further west and after arriving at Ngaminya held ceremonies relating to the site. They later continued their journey north-east to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Alice Springs 2006,
Certificate number WN0609224

Walangkura Napanangka was born at the site of Tjiturrulnga, west of Kintore circa 1946.  Her Family moved to Haasts Bluff when she was in her early teens.  She is the daughter of Inyuwa Nampitjinpa and the sister of Pirrmangka Napanangka who both painted for Papunya Tula Artists.  Walangkura began painting for the company in  early 1996, and along with her husband Johnny Yungut Tjupurrula, shares her time between Kintore and Kiwirrkura.  In 1999 Walangkura contributed to the Kiwirrkura womens' painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia

National Gallery of Victoria

Art Gallery of New South Wales

The Kelton Foundation Collection

Aboriginal At Museum, The Netherlands
Artbank