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Ngayuku Ngura (This is my country)

Nyankulya Watson was born at Mt Aloysius, at a rockhole not far from the tri state boarder sometime around 1938. As a teenager she lived at Anumarapiti, now an outstation of Irrunytju. She remembers shortly after this time white fellas came and told her family to go to Ernabella. It was a good at the mission, there was lots of flour, tea and sugar. "In the morning we would listen for the bell, then we would line up for food, go to church and then to work." Nyankulya was a senior Pitjantjatjara woman and was a founding member of Irrunytiju Arts. She now lives in Nyapari and Kalka communities, S.A. where she paints for Tjunga Palya and Ninuku Artists.

She has work in a number of important collections, including the Art Gallery of

Western Australia, National Gallery of Australia, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

This tapestry is in the collection of the Tapestry Foundation of Australia, on loan to the Australian Embassy, Rome.