Emerging Women

In this painting Deannie has depicted her country. This painting depicts the Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, North-east of Kintore. The painting tells the story of the rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Today the custodians of this important Water Dreaming site celebrate its stories in ceremonies.

In this painting Deannie has depicted her country. This painting depicts the Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, North-east of Kintore. The painting tells the story of the rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Today the custodians of this important Water Dreaming site celebrate its stories in ceremonies.

Melinda has used the wild flowers that grow in the Central desert country as an inspiration for this painting.

In this Painting Rosena has depicted a story from her country Kumunmata, near Napairi. In this story, two women are collecting Bush Tucker and performing ceremonies as they travelled around Kunmunmata.

This painting tells a Kapi Tjukurrpa (water dreaming) story of Wantupunyu. Wantupunyu is Punni's grandfather's Country and the site is to the north of Papunya and west of the sacred mountain Karinyarra. Punni leant to paint this story from her Mother's paintings, Isobel Gorey Nambajimba, who is a prolific painter and a director at Papunya Tjupi. Water dreaming sites are important for the regeneration of nature. The water makes the country green and brings a lot of 'bush tucker' foods for the people and the animals. The heavy rain usually comes in the summer time. When the lightening can be seen at a distance, the elders will start singing to the lightening, encouraging it to bring more rain to replenish the land. In her paintings, Puuni depicts lightening, rainbows, puddles and bush flowers. In this painting the central shapes are important water or rock hole site. The lines represent the elements of a storm - wind, rain, thunderclouds and lightning. The patterns represent rain and water flowing from the waterholes and flooding the usually dry creek beds.

Linda has painted this lake South-West of Kintor. This story was passed on to her by Naputa Nangala Tjukurai who is the sister of Linda's step-father, who passed the story onto her. The circles represent rock holes. The joined together 'U'shapes represent the women collecting water from the lake. Linda has also painted women dancing and women and children sitting around the water hole. The wavy lines at each end of the painting represent the mountain ranges surrounding the Lake McDonald.

Linda has painted this lake South-West of Kintore. This story was passed on to her by Naputa Nangala Tjukurai who is the sister of Linda's step-father, who passed the story onto her. The circles represent rock holes. The joined together 'U'shapes represent the women collecting water from the lake. Linda has also painted women dancing and women and children sitting around the water hole. The wavy lines at each end of the painting represent the mountain ranges surrounding the Lake McDonald.

Linda has painted this lake South-West of Kintore. This story was passed on to her by Naputa Nangala Tjukurai who is the sister of Linda's step-father, who passed the story onto her. The circles represent rock holes. The joined together 'U'shapes represent the women collecting water from the lake. Linda has also painted women dancing and women and children sitting around the water hole. The wavy lines at each end of the painting represent the mountain ranges surrounding the Lake McDonald.

This painting depicts the Kapi Tjukurrpa (Water Dreaming) at Kalipinypa, North-east of Kintore. Kalipinypa is Jacquie's father's country. The painting tells the story of the rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Today the Nakamarra, Tjakamarra, Napurrula and Tjupurrula men and women are the custodians of this important Water Dreaming site and celebrate its stories in the ceremonies. Jacquie has used imagery to depict different parts of the landscape and story from this site. The curved shapes are puuli (hills) and tali (sand hills), the lone circle is a waterhole, the lines are creeks and kapi (water), the small repeated oval shapes are lightning and the horizontal bars represent body paint.

This painting depicts a Water Dreaming story at Kalipinypa, North-East of Kintore. The painting tells the story of a rain and hail making ceremony for the site of Kalipinypa. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Today the Nakamarra, Tjakamarra, Napurrula and Tjupurrula men and women are the custodians of this important Water Dreaming story. Patricia talks about the painting showing when the lightning sparkles. The different shapes depict wiinpa (lighting) and kunata (hailstones). If present, the central circle represents tjukula (a rock hole).

This work was created during a Papunya Tjupi Bush Trip to Winparku, located west of Ikuntji (Haast Bluff). It depicts the unique landscape as well as the women (depicted by the U shapes) of Papunya Tjupi sitting, dancing, hunting, painting and singing together as part of the week long trip.