• Artist: Rosalind Yibardi
• Title: Kultukatjara Rockholes
• Size: 40.6 x 55.9cm

Rosalind Yibardi is a senior artist and previous director of Tjarlirli and Kaltukatjara Art.
She is also a member of both the NPY Women's Council and the acclaimed Central
Australian Aboriginal Women's choir.

Rosalind has been painting canvas and weaving baskets and sculptures from tjanpi
(native grasses) for many years and has passed these skills onto her children and
grandchildren.

Early life

Rosalind was born near Puta Puta, around 90 kilometres east of Kaltukatjara (Docker
River). She has lived and travelled throughout the Western Desert region. As a young
girl, she lived in Putarti, before travelling through the ranges on a camel-drawn cart to
Tempe Downs. At the age of seven, she moved from Tempe Downs to Areyonga,
walking there with her family.

Rosalind later moved to Kaltukatjara with her three children, to live closer to her
birthplace.

From educator to respected elder

Rosalind worked at community schools in both Areyonga and Kaltukatjara, and fondly
remembers taking the children on excursions to the cities down south and out on
country. She has also visited Germany to sing with the Central Australian Aboriginal
Women's Choir and has many fond memories from this trip.

She is a highly respected elder in the Kaltukatjara community and is an almost-daily
presence in the art centre. Her kindness, good humour, rich knowledge and artistic
prowess make her an essential member of Tjarlirli and Kaltukatjara Art.

• Artist: Mal Porter
• Title: Tjarliri
• Size: 91.4 x 91.4cm

Tjarlirli is very close to Tjukurla community. It is the site where the
Punyunyu/Tingarri women were staying separate from the men during the
Tingarri ceremony. At that site they prepared food for the men and Maliki
(visitors). Tjarlirli pays homage to the woman for their important role in food
gathering, preparation, cooking and feeding of their menfolk and families.

• Artist: Maimie Giles
• Title: Malul Kumpu
• Size: 30.5 x 40.6cm

• Artist: Joy Jackson
• Title: Nyinga Tjukurrpa
• Size: 40.6 x 76.2cm

Joy paints tjukurrpa (dreaming stories) from a number of her family's traditional
homes across the Ngaanyatjarra lands.

Joy Jackson has painted with Kaltukatjara Art since the centre was established in
Docker River in 2016.

She was born in Warburton in Western Australia and grew up in Papulankutja
(Blackstone). She has spent time around her mother's home of Warakurna, but has
raised her family in Kaltukatjara (Docker River).

Joy paints tjukurrpa (dreaming stories) from a number of her family's traditional homes
across the Ngaanyatjarra lands. Joy exhibited her works at the 'Revealed' exhibition for
emerging artists at Fremantle Art Centre in 2019, and has participated in several group
exhibitions in WA.

This painting depicts Joy's maternal grandmother's birthplace of Katjalurlu,
which is west of the WA border near the Irrunytju turnoff on the Warakurna road,
in Ngaanyatjarra country.

On the other side of the turnoff, there's a bore; if you go further into the bush
there you'll find Katjalurlu. There is one kapi, rockhole, there. Around that place
are karu (creeks), puli (rocky mountains) and tali (sandhills). When there are
clouds in the sky, the landscape is patterned with shadows.

The story at this place is Nyinga Tjukurrpa, ice dreaming. This story comes
from the south, lots of men and two ladies. Joy learnt this story from her
grandmother and mother, Warakurna artist Nanacy Nyanyana Jackson.

Joy depicts the women sitting down near the waterhole, surrounded by the
natural features of the landscape. She favours harmonious colours and often
builds up layers in her works by laying out the composition with brushes, before
adding features with punu (wooden stick application).