Emma Singer & Josina Pumani
This is a collaborative painting between emerging cultural leaders Josina Pumani and Emma Singer.
Both artists have grown up at the art centre, watching their mothers and aunties paint and celebrate Tjukurpa. The painting reflects the rich knowledge they have been given by their Elders,vsharing a story about the many Kapi tjukurlav(rock holes)around Antara and Piltarti (Victory Well).The women from Mimili would go to the waterhole north of Mimili. They would clean it out, then wait for the rain to come. When the waterhole was full with water they would tap on the waters surface and sing inma for Maku Tjuta (enough Maku for everyone).The rock holes, hills and country are depicted in this painting. Mimili Community is home to3 00Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara people who have been living in the area for millennia inharmony with nature and acting as custodians of the land and the Tjukurpa(creation stories). Mimili was formerly known as Everard Park, which was a cattle station that was returned to Aboriginal ownership through the1981APY Lands Act. Mimili Community was incorporated as an Aboriginal Community in1975