Karnta and wumpia (Cold and hot)
$6,500.00
Arkutja mapa (group of women) sitting by the fire making a windbreak, cooking and sitting down eating. They went out bush somewhere to the west, near Fifteen Mile Outstation. They went camping at karnta-time, wintertime. They went look for fish and rabbit, kangaroo. On the other side is kids swimming in wumpia-time (hot-time, summer). Swimming near Mt Hermannsburg in Salta Salta waterhole, next to Finke River.
Judith Inkamala is former Chair and senior member of Hermannsburg Potters Aboriginal Corporation, having joined the founding group of artists in 1993. Judith is an is an inspiring leader in her community of Ntaria (Hermannsburg), respected for her unwavering dedication and commitment to intergenerational sharing of cultural and ceramic knowledge. Judith is also a former member of the renowned Hermannsburg Choir. Judith’s first solo exhibition, Atha Yia Nukanha Ilama (I gotta tell my story / I’m telling my story), opened at the Art Gallery of South Australia in October 2023 as part of Tarnanthi. Judith was awarded the 2022 Australia Council Award for Visual Arts for her lifetime of achievement with Hermannsburg Potters and dedication to arts and cultural work in Ntaria.
With 30 years’ experience working with clay and underglazes, Judith depicts her lived histories and distinct Western Arrarnta Country. Like many Hermannsburg Potters and Western Arrarnta artists, Judith’s painting style was informed by the watercolours of Albert Namatjira and the artists working in Ntaria at that time. “I remember the old people painting on paper. Painting the watercolours. I was best friends with Gillian Namatjira. After school I went to her house. Albert, her grandfather, was painting watercolours. The ladies painted too.”
