- Title: Kalaya Tjukurpa
- Artist: Kay Baker
- Region: Central Australia
- Art Centre: Tjungu Palya
- Medium: Silkscreen
- Collection:
- Dimensions: 84 x 59 cm
- Edition Size:
- Price ($AUD): $ 550.00
Artwork Story
This is Kalaya Tjukurpa (the creation story of the Emu man). The father emu hid all his children in the bush. He told the kipara (bush turkey man) that he had deliberately dropped his kids and then eaten them. He persuaded the kipara to do the same. The kipara only had one son. Ngaltutjara (poor thing!) When the kipara saw the emu chicks running around he was really angry. The kipara was throwing rocks at the kalaya. Where he chased him along throwing rocks a creek was formed. The kalaya was pikatjara (sick). The country where he was lying down vomiting is marked by a clay pan. Tjukurpa mulapa (this law is true).
Tjungu Palya artists have collaborated with Basil Hall, a master printmaker who has, for over 15 years specialised in working with Indigenous artists to produce limited editions of etchings, relief prints and silkscreens on paper. © Tjungu Palya Art Centre 2009