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Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters / Les Sept Soeurs),
2024
Tjunkaya Tapaya
Painting : acrylic
120 x 100 cm 47.2 x 39.4 inch
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120 x 100 cm 47.2 x 39.4 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Artwork location: France
Tjunkaya Tapaya painted the story of the Seven Sisters, a long ancestral creation story that relates to the Pleiades constellation in the southern hemisphere and crosses several Australian deserts. She specifically painted the part of the story that takes place in the Ernabella region, on her ancestral land. In this part of the story, the witch doctor named Nyiru pursues the seven sisters because he wants to capture the eldest. All the younger sisters are very afraid of him. As Nyiru chases the sisters, he tries to catch them by using magic to transform himself into the most tempting bush tomatoes for the sisters to eat and the most beautiful fig tree for the sisters to camp under. However, the sisters, aware of his magic, prefer to go hungry and run during the night rather than be caught by Nyiru. Finally, to escape him, the sisters fly into the sky where they transform into stars and form the Pleiades constellation.
Provenance: Ernabella Artists (Official Aboriginal Artists Cooperative), Pukatja, South Australia, Australia.
Ref. No: 157-24
The work is accompanied by the official certificate of authenticity from the artist's cooperative. The name of the Aboriginal artists' cooperative and the unique registration number assigned to the work are indicated on the back of the canvas, allowing the ethical and authentic provenance of the work to be traced.
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Tjunkaya Tapaya is an Australian Aboriginal artist of the Pitjantjatjara people, born in 1947 and living in the desert community of Pukatja in South Australia. She grew up at the Ernabella (Pukatja) Mission where she began working in the craft room making weavings, before excelling in batik. She has become one of the most notable artists in the APY Aboriginal Lands in South Australia, whose work is included in numerous public collections. Her work was featured on the cover of curator Judith Ryan's book “Across the Desert: Aboriginal Batik from Central Australia". Tjunkaya also works in ceramics, tjanpi (native grasses), punu (wood), printmaking, spinning, and mukata (hat) making.
Since 2015, Tjunkaya has chosen to focus on painting, ceramics, and Tjanpi sculpture. This focus has allowed her to become one of the most sought-after female artists in APY lands and increasingly recognized in these mediums.
Tjunkaya has served on the board and vice-chair of the Ernabella Aboriginal Artists Cooperative, and led the Nintintjaku Project, an intergenerational teaching project working with the Ernabella Anangu School and the Ernabella NPY Youth Team. Tjunkaya is also a prolific writer in Pitjantjatjara. In 2018, Tjunkaya's work as a representative of her people, artist, and writer was recognized and she received the Gladys Elphick Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, Tjunkaya was awarded the Order of Australia, General Division.
Tjunkaya's works are held in major Australian and international public collections, such as the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne), the National Museum of Australia (Canberra), the Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane), the Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide), Artbank (Sydney), the Museum of Ethnology in Osaka (Japan) and the National Museum of Scotland (UK).
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