I grew up in an artist family, both my mum’s two sisters’ husbands were Kaapa Tjampitjinpa and Walangarri Tjakamarra. I used to see them painting. Then my other artist grandfather, Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi, I started helping him doing dot painting for Warumpi Arts. I used to help my mum too, Topsy Napaltjarri, for Warumpi Arts. I learnt from them by watching, how to do painting. At the end of last year, I started painting like this style. I’m doing that painting, that’s my stepfather’s Dreaming. Kapi Tjukurrpa I’m doing. I’m letting my dad know that I’m doing that painting. I used to sit down with him watching him doing painting, and he’d tell me
story about Water Dreaming. We used to move around, sitting in humpies, families used to move around.
Roslyn Dixon has depicted designs associated with her aunty Isobel Gorey’s grandfather and father’s country, Wantupunyu, a Kapi Tjukurrpa (water dreaming) site to the north of Papunya, west of the sacred mountain Karinyarra. There is an important waterhole there where the custodians are of the Nampitjinpa, Nangala, Tjampitjinpa and Tjangala skin subsections.
Roslyn attended Papunya school and worked for World Vision in Papunya, and she currently works at Papunya School. Roslyn began painting with Warumpi Arts before the opening of Papunya Tjupi Art Centre in Papunya. She has also painted at Yuendumu, at Warlukurlangu Art Centre.
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