Minyma Tjukurrpa 23-1471 (A)

The young women are travelling around the country near Kaltukarjara (Docker River) 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 genera􀆟ons, and which the artists now deploy in the new medium of acrylic painting.

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Lisa lives in the Tjukurla Community and enjoys painting the stories told to her in travels across the country with her mother. She has extensive knowledge of the many sacred sites in the region. When Lisa was school-aged, her nanny taught her to paint wth brushes in Tjukurla. Later, she learnt the to us punu in the style of dot painting at Tjarlirli.