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Article: Kungkarangka at the National Gallery of Australia

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Kungkarangka at the National Gallery of Australia
Tjanpi Desert Weavers

Kungkarangka at the National Gallery of Australia

Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters) by Tjanpi Desert Weavers is a collaborative large-scale installation commissioned by the National Gallery of Australia as a part of the Know My Name: Australian Women Artists 1900 to Now exhibition.

Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters) is an epic ancestral story. It follows the journey of seven sisters as they are pursued across Country by Wati Nyiru / Yurla, who is chasing the eldest sister. The sisters constantly try to evade Wati Nyiru leaving traces of their journey in the landscape. In an attempt to escape, they eventually launch themselves into the sky, transforming into the stars that form the Pleiades. Wati Nyiru follows and becomes the Orion constellation. The retelling and depiction of this story relays the impact of transgressive behaviour and location of water resources necessary for survival in the desert.

Know My Name is an initiative of the National Gallery of Australia to celebrate the significant contributions of Australian women artists. The initiative aims to increase the representation of artists who identify as women in its artistic program and enhance understanding of the contributions they have made and continue to make to Australia’s cultural life.

Contributing artists: Dianne Ungukalpi Golding, Delilah Shepherd, Winifred Puntjina Reid, Dorcas Tinnimai Bennett, Martha Yunurupa Ward, Nancy Nyanyana Jackson, Polly Pawuya Jackson, Cynthia Nyungalya Burke, Erica Ikungka Shorty, Judith Yinyika Chambers, Rosalie Richards, Dallas Smythe, Roma Yanyakarri Butler.

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An exciting new project investigating food security in the APY lands.
Child & Family Wellbeing

An exciting new project investigating food security in the APY lands.

The Child & Family Well-being Service is leading an exciting new research project investigating food security on the NPY lands. Dietary factors account for almost 10% of the burden of disease in Indigenous Australians and 15% of the health gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians. The research project will look at decision making and local factors that affect food choices in remote communities.

There has been concerted effort and small gains over many years to improve affordability and availability of healthy food and drinks in the NPY lands.

Although availability of good quality fruit and vegetables has increased by 50% in the APY Lands since 1986, seemingly many people still maintain a poor diet quality with high energy intake from discretionary food such as sugary drinks and takeaway meals increasing during this time. (2016 Lee et al).

Despite understanding people’s food purchasing habits, little is known about what informs people’s day to day decision making around food purchasing and eating behaviour. This new research project will investigate what influences food choices and priorities locally.

The second stage of this research will pilot interventions designed to address factors influencing food choice and consumption with the goal of informing and improving nutrition related service delivery to the NPY lands.

This project is led by the NPY Women’s Council’s Child Nutrition Program and is funded through the MRFF fund. The research will place Anangu voices and protocol at the centre of the research process.

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Maimie Butler & Anawari Mitchell lead a special camp filled with culture & clear thinking
Ngangkari Traditional Healers

Maimie Butler & Anawari Mitchell lead a special camp filled with culture & clear thinking

Maimie & Anawari drew on their work over the last 6 years with the Ngangkari program’s Uti Kulintjaku – Clear Thinking initiative to share their knowledge of emotional well-being with 28 women and girls at an important cultural site in WA.

For three nights, women and girls from Papulankutja, Irrunytju and Tjuntjuntjara camped out at Kuru Ala, a cultural site associated with the Seven Sisters story.

It was a chance to share stories, dances and songs about the site.

Maimie and Anawari spoke about books they had helped to create like Tjulpu and Walpa which tells the story of two young girls. Tjulpu is the bird that sings. Walpa is the blowing wind. The story explains how the care we give a child shapes their behaviour.

The group also practiced meditation and collected bush medicines.

The camp was an initiative between the NPYWC’s Ngangkari program’s Uti Kulintjaku team, NPYWC Youth Service and Ngaanyatjarra Council Land Management. It was supported by a Dream it Forward grant from Connect Groups WA.

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NPY Women's Council is grounded in, and continues to live and work on, the sovereign Lands of the Arrernte people, and the Aṉangu and Yarnangu people - the rightful custodians of the Ngaanyatjarra, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara Lands.