Seven Sisters: Lennard Walker, Ngalpingka Simms, Tracey Simms, Angelina Woods & Kathleen Donnegan.
Past exhibition
Kathleen (Kanta) Donnegan Australian, Pitjantjatjara, b. c. 1944
Pirapi Munu Tjuntjunya, 2018
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
834882
Kanta has painted the Minyma Tjuta or Seven Sisters story as it passes through her homeland area Tjuntunya. The Minyma Tjuta story is a powerful and pertinent story to women...
Kanta has painted the Minyma Tjuta or Seven Sisters story as it passes through her homeland area Tjuntunya. The Minyma Tjuta story is a powerful and pertinent story to women right across the Western Desert. In this story several women are travelling across country chasing a large python and who are in turn being pursued by a lustful oder man who wants to catch himself a wife. In Spinifex country where the women have been present there will be a significant landmark or change in geographic terrain. The larger roundalls are the rockholes across Spinifex country in particular Tjuntunya, Pirapi and Mamutu. The women finally left this area and headed north to a significant womens site called Tjintirkara. Nyiru continued to follow them while they pursued the python.