Ngupulya Pumani Antara

Antara in South Australia is an extremely important site for Ngupulya Pumani and her family. Antara is her mother’s country. This place and its significant maku (witchetty grub) tjukurpa were a constant in the paintings of her mother, the late Kunmanara (Milatjari) Pumani. Today, Ngupulya and her younger sister Betty Kuntiwa Pumani are proud custodians of this country; they map its significance and hold its stories strong in their paintings.

Ngupulya says: ‘Antara is my mother’s country. She taught me the stories and showed me the places, like one special rock hole where women would have inma (ceremony). Now I remember her when I paint Antara.’

Mimili Maku Arts, 2017