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Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa is open
'The spear is our culture … we live by the spear. We are teaching our young people with spears to look after lore and culture. The spears can protect Country, like they have always been protecting Country for our grandfathers and our ancestors.' Mumu Mike Williams
Kulata Tjuta is an ongoing cultural maintenance project that shares the skills of carving and making the punu kulata (wooden spear) across generations. It started as a project involving a small group of men in Amata and has grown to include over 100 Aṉangu men across the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa is the largest and most significant installation of the culturally important and visually spectacular Kulata Tjuta (Many Spears) Project.
https://nga.gov.au/exhibitions/kulata-tjuta-tirkilpa/
09/11/2024
'Blue is the colour of memory and is associated with water; it washes over me. Waanyi people are known as 'running water people' because of the inherent quality of the water in their country.' Judy Watson, 2007
Blue is an important colour to Watson and features prominently in many of her works. Watson associates blue with memory, a conduit for the subconscious. Blue also represents the colour of the coloniser, found in both British and Australian uniforms and flags. In this work, Watson uses bright white paint to highlight three ambiguous shapes laying on a base of iridescent blue pigment wash. The work can be read in different ways: for example, the large vertical line could represent either a hat pin and awl or a digging stick, depending on whether it is being viewed from an Aboriginal or coloniser perspective.
The work signifies the military and the open wounds inflicted on Aboriginal people. It also offers a strong counterpoint to the colonial experience through the expression of
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Judy Watson, Waanyi people, stake 2010, The Wesfarmers Collection of Australian Art, Boorloo/Perth
01/11/2024
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Workshops with artists Brian Robinson, Maluyligal/Wuthathi/Dayak peoples and Jessika Spencer, Wiradjuri people
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