9. Ngura Tjuta: Big Country
Carol paints in the style of her grandmother Nyankulya Watson. The story passed down to her is about Nyankulya's country and the many places she travelled to as a young girl. Carol learnt all the rock holes from her grandmother.
"Mt Aloysius, good water there.
'Ngura tjuta' (lots of country) including: Altjurungka, Kunaltju, Wangkal, Tur, Wiltju, Wipuwarra, Warratjuntjun, Pitlja Piltj."
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Dimensions: 122 x 91cm
- Cat No. 24-262
Carol Young was born in 1972 in Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory. Like many other Anangu (people of the Pitjantjara lands), Carol remembers spending much of her younger years travelling between communities, particularly Amata and Pipalyatjara. Today, Carol lives in Pipalyatjara and is the primary carer for several of her family members. Carol comes from a strong Anangu family, with both her father and grandmother also being prominent artists. Her father, Stanley Young, aside from being an artist, is also a local elder, lawman, and camel herder. She is also the granddaughter of the late Nyankula Watson, an important Western Desert Painter. Nyankula has passed down both her ‘tjukurpa’ (traditional stories) and unique art style to her granddaughter, which influences all of Carol’s work today. In Anangu culture, stories and painting style are often protected within families, of which only select individuals have permission to continue in their own art practice. Carol uses dot work, with some sweeping brush strokes, to depict these mystical stories of country.
Ninuku Arts was founded in 2006 by a group of Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra artists in a small mud-brick building in Kalka Community, located in the far northwest corner of South Australia. Currently, the art centre supports a rotating roster of forty artists and makers living in both Kalka and Pipalyatjara, which are the most remote communities of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands.
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