Pinari, north-west of Walungurru (Kintore)

$4,300.00

This painting relates to the soakage site of Pinari, north-west of the Walungurru (Kintore) Community. A group of ancestral women once gathered at this site after travelling from further west to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. The women also spun hair-string for making nyimparra (hair-string skirts), which are worn by both men and women during ceremonies.

Upon completion of the ceremonies the women continued their travels gathering large quantities of the edible fruit known as pura (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa), or bush tomato, from the small shrub Solanum chippendalei. This fruit is the size of a small apricot and, after the seeds have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick.

Sally (Sharlena) Rowe is the daughter of Papunya Tula artist Bundi Rowe Tjupurrula and Nancy Young Napanangka. Sally grew up and went to school in Walungurru (Kintore) but only began painting for Papunya Tula around 2022. She learned to paint by watching her grandparents Wintjiya Napaltjarri andToba Tjakamarra paint in the Papunya Tula Artists studio as a small child. Sally usually paints the site Pinari and the associated Tjukurrpa which she has custodial rights to through her grandmother.