Karnungu kapi Karti kan (Boy to man)

$6,000.00

Karnungu manyikitay appijaranta pulkka jinta Kan apan kan ama Karti. 

Small boy walking then grows up becomes a man. 

Joseph Williams Jungurayi is a founding member of the Tennant Creek Brio. He is a multimedia artist, carver, writer, poet. Williams began his carving as a teenager during the mid-1990s, following in the footsteps of his grandfather Nat Jupurula Williams and being taught by his second grandfather Walter Pula Nelson. His work includes paintings and a contemporary renditions of traditional objects including kayin (boomerangs), wartikirri (number 7 boomerang), clapping sticks and purnu (coolamons) fashioned from hardwood. He has recently begun experimenting with figurative realism, drawing inspiration from his Warumungu and Croatian heritage. Amongst other forays he co-directed (with Peter Pecotić) the film Countryman 2021.