Anumara Piti
$6,200.00
I really always paint this country, Anumara Piti. I paint the big rockholes with the linking paths taken by the green Anumara caterpillars, creating the country, travelling in their long lines as always. Really, as I say, I have painted my Tjukurpa for a long time, the Caterpillar Dreaming at Anumara Piti.
I grew up in Ernabella. Came here to Granite Downs when I was older. I spent all my young years in Ernabella. As a teenager I went to Amata where I married a Fregon man. I have no children, but I am the carer for my sister’s grandchildren. I learnt to sing in Amata and do inma (dancing) there when I was a growing teenager. Today I am a big singer. I sing for the Ernabella choir. In 2000, I went to Sydney for the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games. I sang and danced there. I am proud of that. It was wiru (good). I sing all the time. In 2003, I travelled for choir to Womadelaide and sang to big audiences there. My husband and I went to Emmanuel College in Adelaide for school. He was training to be stockman on a cattle farm. I learnt there too, how to read. I have worked in Granite Downs at Aged Care as a support person. Now, I am a senior lady at Iwantja. I began work at Iwantja in the early 80’s, so I was first woman artist here, been here a lot a years. I help look after the art centre and go to big meetings for them. I make baskets, weavings, linocuts and paintings and punu (wooden animals) and piti (wooden artefacts). Tjukurrpa (dreaming) and tjukula (rock holes) are my special designs as well as bush tucker animals. I want to keep painting and singing always.
