Artitja Fine Art Gallery invites you to

ANANYI NYURAKUTU | Going Home

Opening: Thursday 11th March 2021 | 6 – 8 pm
RSVP for opening night to Anna Kanaris 0418 900 954
info@artitja.com.au

Exhibition runs: Friday 12 March to Monday 5 April

Wed – Sun 10am to 4pm

View online: View the exhibition online at www.artitja.com.au

Country connects all aspects of Anangu* life and its continuation of spirituality, culture, language, family, Tjukurpa (law) and identity. In 2019 Artitja Fine Art Gallery was delighted to send a letter of support to assist the Ernabella Art centre in the APY lands in securing funding from the Australia Council to undertake the Ngayuku Mulayangu munu Ilpiltja Project and enable two key Ernabella Arts family members from the Lewis and Lionel families to go back to Country for the first time. This exhibition is the result. For over fifty years, matriarchs Atipalku Intjalki and Yurpiya Lionel have been painting at the art centre and visited their fathers’ Country only once. Atipalku’s father Mulayangu passed on sacred knowledge to her and it is her responsibility to keep this knowledge alive by teaching it to her descendants – three generations of Lionel/Lewis families by going back to Country, to be, to sing, to share Tjukurpa and paint and create artwork. Senior Ernabella artists consistently express their desire to nurture the younger ones and have devised a number of projects over the years that have successfully encouraged, engaged and ensured the transmission of both cultural knowledge and artistic practice to the next generation of artists. For Anangu, the transmission of knowledge, particularly across generations is aural; it is enacted and living.

* the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people of the region

Image: Michelle Lewis 148x88cm Michelle’s Tjala Dreaming (Honey Ant)