- Title: Kapi Tjukurpa
- Artist: Dickie Minyintiri
- Region: Central Australia
- Art Centre: Ernabella Arts
- Medium: Silkscreen
- Collection:
- Dimensions: 53 x 70 cm
- Edition Size: 20
- Price ($AUD): $ 330
Artwork Story
Kapi is water and Dickie remembers journeying across country, whole families together at the water hole. from Anangu knowledge of water sources was critical to their survival.
When Dickie paints Kapi Tjukula (waterhole songline), he is painting about when he was a young child still living a nomadic existence with his family, and each of the tjukula (circles) of the paint is a camp at a plentiful water supply.
He was born in the Western APY Lands, and with his family, journeyed east, and camped for many years in the foothills of the Musgrave Ranges around Ernabella where water was plentiful. He was living here when the missionaries came in on camels to try and find a suitable place to set up a mission for Pitjantjatjara Yankanytjatjara people. He is one of the few living Anangu that remember first contact. Dickie continues to refer to the great significance of water places and how Anangu spend time at a tukula and once it has dried up, travel to another.”
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