Acrylic on Linen

Katherine, a highly talented artist, started painting in 1986. She is a mid-career artist who is considered an underrated discovery capable of a glowing career.

Tjintjintin refers to rockholes, soakage and water sites in an area near Kiwirrkura. Katherine uses striking colours and heavy dot work to depict traditional sacred women's sites in the Kintore area, which is located 250km west of Katherines birthplace. The concentric circles commonly seen in her paintings represent the important ceremonial sites for Katherine and her ancestors and the connecting lines between the circles are the ancient travelling paths that lead to these sites.

Katherine was born in 1968 in the Pintupi country of Papunya to a family of highly acclaimed artists. Her parents Walangkura and Johhny Yungut passed their Dreamtime stories onto Katherine and her sisters, Lorraine Nakamarra Yungut and Debra Nakamarra Young. Her Mother is one of the last generation to remember a childhood loved in the desert hunting and gathering with her family, Katherine's paintings recall the stories of country and the location of specific sites in her traditional homeland west of the salt lake of Karrkurutinjinya (Lake Macdonald).

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