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Contact Email: ninuku@bigpond.com Phone/Fax: 08 89548054 Kalka Community, PMB 65 via Alice Springs NT 0872 |
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Location Ninuku Arts supports artists from Pipalyatjara and Kalka in far north-western South AustraThese two communities, fourteen kilometlia, near the corner of the tri-state border of SA, WA and NT. res apart, are surrounded by the Tomkinson Ranges and are part of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, to which freehold title was granted in 1981. Kalka and Pipalyatjara each have populations of around 100-150 Anangu (‘people’ in Pitjantjatjara) and are serviced by a school, TAFE, clinic and the Ninuku Arts. The language of this part of the Lands is Pitjantjatjara. ‘Ninu’ is the bilby, an important part of the area’s Tjukurpa (dreaming). |
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Artist Owned Ninuku Arts is an Indigenous owned arts centre. It is governed by a committee of practising artists with the advice and support of a full-time manager. All art work produced is catalogued and authenticated and income from sales flows back to individual artists, with a proportion set aside to maintain Ninuku Arts as a community-owned enterprise. Ninuku Arts supports local culture, the development of employment opportunities, and the ethical production and sales of paintings. History Ninuku Arts opened the doors of its mudbrick building in Kalka in August 2006. Since then it has been extended to include another painting room and acquired a silver bullet caravan for a men’s painting room. Prior to this a ‘roving art coordinator’ provided Kalka and Pipalyatjara with materials, technical advice and cataloguing and sales support between 2004-5. Through that project Tjungu Palya was established in neighbouring community Nyapari and Ninuku Arts in Kalka. |
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Artists viewing the collaborative painting Ninuku Tjukurpa: Bilby Dreaming. 2007.
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Nyankulya Watson ‘Marpanytjanya’ , Acrylic on canvas, 99.5 x 97cm. |
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Harry Tjutjuna ‘Wati Ngintaka Tjukurpa’, Acrylic on canvas, 123 x 91cm. |
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Click on the link to view available art works for sale.
Ninuku Arts is represented by:
Aboriginal and Pacific Art www.2danksstreet.com.au
Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne www.alcastongallery.com.au
Chapman Gallery, Canberra www.chapmangallery.com.au
Short St Gallery, Broome www.shortstgallery.com.au |