Tatali Nangala played a vital role in the 1994 workshop at Walungurru and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in May 1996. She was a senior leader who, at the time, held ceremonial responsibilities due to her close cultural ties to the area. Tatali was born at the Kungka Kutjarra rockhole at the Women’s Mountain and spent her early years living on Country, learning of and retracing the travels of the women who gave her birth site its name, and following in the footsteps of generations of her family. In painting Kungka Kutjarra Tjukurrpa (Two Women Dreaming) (1996), Tatali pays homage to this site and these women, enlivening their presence through a cluster of vibrant roundels that oscillate on the canvas. The work confidently captures a Tjukurrpa of extreme personal importance through energized visual qualities, highlighting that these women are not something of the past: they remain as a sentient presence within the landscape.

Minyma Kutjarra carried two Tulku (Sacred Objects) looking for Maku (Witchetty Grubs), walking around dancing—my Dreaming. They went a long way and they found water, Palurupula Ankupai (Those Two Kept Traveling).