KUNGKA KUTJARA TJUKURPA, 2011

Important Aboriginal Works of Art
Melbourne
25 May 2016
118

TUPPY NGINTJA GOODWIN

born 1960
KUNGKA KUTJARA TJUKURPA, 2011

synthetic polymer paint on linen

167.0 x 137.0 cm

bears inscription verso: artist’s name, date and Milimi Maku Arts cat. MIM251-2011

Estimate: 
$3,500 – 4,500
Sold for $2,684 (inc. BP) in Auction 43 - 25 May 2016, Melbourne
Provenance

Milimi Maku Arts, Mimili, South Australia
A P Bond Gallery, Adelaide
The McKay Superannuation Fund Art Collection, Brisbane

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate from Milimi Maku Arts which states: ‘This painting about Kunga Kutjara (two ladies) that met at a Rockhole, near Bumbali Creek, not far from the Northern Territory and South Australian border. This Tjukurpa tells the moving story of an elder sister bringing her missing younger sister back to her birth country after a long period of separation. Tuppy has painted a conceptual map of the country formed of expansive colour, signs, and marks of the two sister’s travels and sacred presence in the land.’