Minyma Tjukurla 23-1448 (A)

The young women are travelling around the country near Tjukurla with the older ladies. They are learning many things about where to collect special grasses and flowers and other types of bush tucker. This knowledge is recorded in the motifs and symbols which have been used in Western Desert visual culture for countless generations, and which the artists now deploy in the new medium of acrylic painting.

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Geraldine is associated with Tjarlirli Art - It is a community based Art Centre, owned by the artists. Tjukurla Community is 300km west of Uluru, its neighbours are Karltukatjarra (Docker River) and Warakurna. It is a small community and the people who live here speak several varieties of the Western Desert Languages, they are Ngaatjatjarra, Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjarra, Pintupi and Luritja. In the Tingarri Dreaming, Tjukurla is Tingarri Ngurra, the home of the ancestral Tingarri Beings.