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EILEEN NAPALTJARRI (born circa 1956)

Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Tjiturrulpa,
situated in rocky hills west of the Kintore Community. The lines in the painting
represent the sandhills surrounding the area, as well as the spears and nulla nullas
of a group of women who travelled to this site. While at Tjiturrulpa the group
gathered pitjara or desert yam, the edible tuber of the shrub Ipomoea costata which
grow in profusion in this site.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kintore 2004,
Certificate number EN0410277

Eileen was born in Haasts Bluff in December 1956. Her father Charlie Tararu
Tjungurrayi was one of the founding members of Papunya Tula Artists, and her
mother Tatali Nangala was also a very successful artist with the company from
1996 until her death in 1999. Eileen grew up in Haasts Bluff and later moved to
Kintore with her family when it was first established. The main site Eileen refers to
in her painting is Tjiturrulnga, which is slightly west of Kintore and the birthplace
of her father. She often sat beside both of her parents as they worked and although
doing her first painting in 1996 Eileen didn’t start painting regularly until 1999.

REPRESENTED
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Artbank