Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters)

$23,500.00

Matjangka Norris is from Watinuma on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (APY Lands), 350 km south-east of Uluru. Matjangka was born at Victory Downs Station, just on the Northern Territory border, north of Kaltjiti (Fregon). She moved to Pukatja (Ernabella) with her family when she was a tjitji pulka (big girl) and went to the mission school. Matjangka and her family then moved to Kaltjiti where she finished her schooling. She has worked as a teacher at the school, in the store and at the clinic in Kaltjiti over the years.

Matjangka has worked in the mediums of painting and batik, examples of which can be found in the National Gallery of Victoria, South Australian Museum and Flinders University Collections. Matjangka is an energetic, prolific and versatile artist who now concentrates on painting as her primary medium. Her versatility is evident her famous performances of the Mamu (spirit monsters) inma which is humorous but also quite scary. Matjangka works full time creating her art and spends most days in the Kaltjiti art centre.