2024 | NINUKU ARTS

2024 WORKS ON PAPER - ARALYA PROJECT - NINUKU ARTS

FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE - Arts in health

The Aralya Project supported 20 artists from Ninuku Arts Indigenous Corporation, an art centre based on the APY Lands, to travel to Kuntjanu homeland, roughly 70 kilometres southeast of Pipalyatjara, to immerse themselves in Country, visit important dreaming sights, and create major collaborative artworks telling the Tjukurpa (cultural law and stories). The works on paper presented here are part of an Aralya project exhibition, which included significant large-scale paintings and fibre sculptures presented during the Tarnanthi Festival.

Kuntjanuanya munu Arralyanya ngurra ngayuku. Ngayulu pukularipai ngurra ankula nyakula. Mununa pukularinyi ngayuku tjitji tjutangku ngurra nintingku Ngurrkantanku-nyangka. Tjana rawangku ankula nyakupai ngurra tjukurpa kulintjikitjangku munuya kilinkupai ngurra nyara palunya warka Land Management-pangka. Kuntjanu-nya pulanya Arralya-nya tunymanangi lyaa winki.

Josephine Watjari Mick, 2019.

Kuntjanu and Aralya is my home. Im lucky, I always go home for visits to see my Country, to say hello and be happy. Im lucky my children and grandchildren know their country. They always go and see their Tjukurpa sites, they clean rock holes, fix damages and support Land Management when they visit. Kuntjanu and Aralya is a part of them like it is for me.

ART CENTRE SUPPORT

Ku Arts provide practical, on the ground support for art centre boards, staff and artists, including governance, staff inductions, best practice management, arts worker training and development.

The Aralya Project was made possible by the generous support of funding bodies Australia Council for the Arts and Arts South Australia and presented during Tarnanthi 2018.