Tjanpi Desert Weavers Exhibition

Really One Story: Art from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands

Tjanpi Desert Weavers artists, Dianne Ungukapi Golding, Yanyangkari Roma Butler and Cynthia Burke will present new major works in Really One Story: Art from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands at FORM Gallery, WA.

Pinirnpa (Ant Bed) honours the early days of fibre arts practice in the Ngaanyatjarra region. These large scale works reveal the quiet beauty of materials and colours from Country. Capturing the organic shapes and soft colours of the landscape is achieved through bush-dying processes and creative coiling techniques. Native barks, leaves and tree roots were collected to handdye wool and raffia woven into the artwork.

FORM Gallery will also present Kukaputju – The Hunter, a Tjanpi stop-motion animation which tells a story about feral cats on the Ngaanyatjarra lands.

Retail pieces, including fabulous feral cat sculptures, will be available for purchase throughout the exhibition.

Really one story: Art from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands.

2 March - 7 May 2023

FORM Gallery & Café

4 Shenton Road

Claremont WA 6010

Animation is ‘Cooking’ in Tjuntjuntjara

Milpa artists, producing pilot cooking show!

Hand crafted puppets are cooking Butter Chicken in Tjuntjuntjara. This year the talented multimedia artists from the Milpa studio, a digital arts space run by the Spinifex Arts Project have been working on a Pitjantjatjara stop motion animation cooking show. The short animation film is set in a miniature replica of the the Tjuntjuntjara community’s Women Centre kitchen. Working from real photos the artists have modelled puppets, props and a movie set are created using recycled materials and polymer clay. The film was created by FM Donaldson, Maureen Donegan, Adelle Hogan, Naomi Felton, Janine Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Pamela Hogan, Regina Lyons, Donna Mungee, Adrian Stevens, Loretta Stevens, Sherrie West, Dianne Thompson, Susan Young and Mathew York.

Milpa is a multi media arts space where young and old artists are employed on a project session basis to produce new artworks to create short animations and art films in local dialects including Pitjantjatjara.

Images: Dianne Thompson, Pamela Hogan and Regina Lyons shooting a short stop animation film.

Materials: Recycled materials, paint, foam, wood, paint, wire, polymer clay, material, paper, glue.

Dimensions: Vary, the Movie set 900mm x 600mm x 500mm. All photos taken and provided by Milpa, Spinifex Arts Project.