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YUKULTJI NAPANGATI (born circa 1970)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with Yunala, a rockhole and soakage water
site situated among sandhills just to the west of the Kiwirrkura Community in
Western Australia. During mythological times a group of ancestral women camped
at this site after travelling from further west. While at Yunala the women camped
beside the rockhole digging for the edible roots of the bush banana or silky pear
vine Marsdenia Australis also known as yunala. The lines in this painting represent
both the sandhills surrounding the site as well as the yunala. The women later
continued their travels towards the east passing through the Kiwirrkura area on
their way to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Kiwirrkura 2006,
Certificate number YN0603138

Yukultji Napangati came to Kiwirrkura in 1984. Prior to this she had been living
with eight others of her immediate family in the country west of Lake Mackay. It
was estimated that at this time she was 14 years old. In 1999 Yukultji contributed
to the Kiwirrkura women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal
and in 2005 she was selected as one of nine artists to exhibit at the prestigious
Primavera show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, an invitation, non
selling exhibition for young Australian artists under the age of thirty five.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
Artbank Collection