“When I paint, it’s like inma (ceremonial dance and song)."
"This is Antara, a sacred place for Anangu, and the Maku Tjukurpa (witchetty grub story). There is a special rock hole at Antara where women perform inma – ‘inmaku pakani’ – and afterwards there is enough maku to feed everyone. Antara and Maku Tjukurpa are really important for Mimili women, we paint this place and its stories, keeping them strong.”
Tuppy lives in Mimili Community, home to 300 Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia in harmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa (creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the 1981 AP Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in 1975. © The Artist and Mimili Maku
TUPPY NGINTJA GOODWIN
ANTARA, 2020
152 x 122 cm
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
$10,000
PROVENANCE
Mimili Maku Arts, SA Cat No. MMK01
Araluen Art Centre, Desert Mob, 2020, Alice Springs, NT
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
