Lot 1

Work in very good condition, stretched with no additional framing. (LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE MEDIUM)


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Papunya Tula Artists, Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Nothern Territory (accompanied by a certificate of authenticity)
Private collection, Alice Springs

"This painting depicts designs associated with the claypan site of Watanuma, north west of the Kintore community.
In mythological times a group of women gathered at the site to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. They made spun hair-string to then make hair-string skirts which are worn during ceremonies. The lines with adjacent short bars represent these skirts.
Upon completion of the ceremonies at Watanuma they continued travelling east to the lake site of Pinari, north-west of Kintore. As they travelled they gathered large quantities of seeds known as mungilypa or samphire from the small fleshy sub-shrub Tecticornia Verrucosa. These seeds are ground into a paste which is cooked in the coals to form a type of unleavened bread. " - Papunya Tula Artists

Wintjiya was born at Malparingya, north-west of the Kintore community. As the second wife of Turkey Tolson's father, she left her community and moved to Haasts Bluff with her husband and then to the Papunya community after it was established. She participated in the Kintore/Haasts Bluff collaborative project which was the beginning of her career and later painted exclusively for Papunya Tula Artists.