Kulata Tjuta

Frank Young has depicted kulata (spears), tjutinypa (short hitting and throwing club) and kali (boomerang)- important hunting instruments used by men.

 

Frank Young was born near Artuti on the APY Lands in 1949. He is a senior man and has been a longtime director of Tjala Arts. As a young man Frank worked with senior men during the 1970s Land Rights Movement on the APY Lands. He is former chairperson of Waturru Community, Amata Community and APY Council. Frank has worked alongside senior men on collaborative canvases at Tjala Arts and across the region and also worked collaboratively with his grandson Anwar Young and niece Unrupa Rhonda Dick on Kulata Tjuta – Wati Kulunypa Tjukurpa (Many spears – Youngfella Story) which won the overall prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards in 2017. Frank has worked on the Kulata Tjuta Project with Senior Men in Amata since its inception in 2010 and has worked on all iterations of the project, including the 2014 Adelaide Biennial Dark Heart and the 2015 and 2017 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Frank is also a painter, and was nominated for the 2023 Sulman Prize at AGNSW and 2024 Wynne Prize and NATSIAAs.