Ngayuku ngura (My country)

$5,000.00

Ngayulu paintamilalpai ngayuku ngunytjuku Ngura munu Tjukurpa minyma.

I paint my mother’s country and its stories about many women.

In this painting Muna Kulyuru has painted her mother’s father’s country, Watarru, in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Muna depicts her tjamu (grandfather’s) country and the Tjukurpa that animates it, relaying the narrative of Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa – the story of many women – as it relates to the fire Tjukurpa, capturing their journeys as they travel across the country, singing, dancing, and creating the landscape as they go.

Muna Kulyuru is a respected artist, teacher, and community leader in Amata. Born in Tjiwuru near Ernabella, she went to Ernabella school and began painting with Tjurma Homelands and then Tjala Arts. Today Muna paints exclusively at Tjala Arts in Amata, creating vibrant, energetic paintings which celebrate the vitality of her country and its important cultural stories. More recently, Muna has been working at Amata Anangu School, teaching the children language and culture, the stories she paints.