4. Tjilkamata
- Ink on Indian rag paper
- Dimensions: 65 x 85cm (framed, in lime green wood)
- Cat No. 53-24
Dulcie Sharpe is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. Her work is held in private and public collections around Australia and she has been a finalist numerous awards including the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Awards
Dulcie Sharpe was born at Hamilton Downs in 1957 and spent many years growing up there. Her mother was from Papunya and she is a Luritja speaker. Sharpe went to school at Kwale Kwale and says her happiest memories are playing every day after school in the bush and swimming when there was water.
It was Sharpe’s grandmother, Old Laddie, who taught her everything about culture: how to find honey ants, bush tucker, dancing, language. Sharpe has been coming to the Yarrenyty Arltere Learning Centre since 2000 when she helped set it up as a place for her community to get well again from the chronic social issues it was facing. Sharpe wanted to create a safe place for the kids and for the adults to find new pathways into the future by holding on strongly to culture and learning together. Sharpe says she loves sewing.
She sews after work on the weekend and even in hospital. Sharpe has now started doing ink on paper, following her sister Trudy Inkamala with this medium. Her images on paper speak of her sculptures and are a beautiful transition from one skill to another. She is a respected elder of the community and a positive role model for other artists.
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists is about family and community. This vibrant dynamic art centre located in the heart of Alice Springs in the Larapinta Valley Town Camp is all about the people that work there daily, their families, their community, their culture. It is about a great future in which the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists are directing for themselves!
Originally established in 2000 as a response to the chronic social issues faced by the town camp, Yarrenyty Arltere Town Camp Artists started as an arts training project. In 2002 the community identified the enterprise as a goal and in 2008 the enterprise was established. Now a vibrant and dynamic hub, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists is seen as an important part in rebuilding strength in the community and creating economic access for people, many of whom had not been engaged previously in the workforce.
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