Yinarupa Nangala

Mukula

2020

This painting features designs that relate to a rockhole called Mukula. In the Tjukurrpa, a large group of ancestral women, represented by the arc shapes, stopped there to perform ceremonies associated with the place. They later continued their travels east, gathering a variety of bush foods including Kaampurarrpa (Desert Raisins) and Pura (Bush Tomatoes). The other shapes in the painting represent these bush foods and geographical features of the country through which they journeyed.

Language Group: Pintupi
Date: Born 1961

Yinarupa Nangala’s family is deeply connected to the Papunya Tula Artists as her father Yanatjarri Tjampitjinpa, her late husband Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, and her brother Ray James Tjangala were all artists or shareholders themselves. Yinarupa arrived in Papunya in 1964 and moved back to Pintupi country in the mid-1980s. She painted her first canvases for Papunya Tula Artists at Kiwirrkurra in June 1996. In 1999, she contributed to the Kiwirrkurra women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal. In 2009 she was awarded the Telstra General Painting Prize at the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.

YINARUPA NANGALA, Mukula, 2020

Synthetic polymer paint on canvas. 24 × 21 5/8 in. (61 × 55 cm). Commissioned by Richard Klingler and Jane Slatter for Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu | Past and Present Together.

Yinarupa Nangala.

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