Acrylic on Linen

This circles in this painting depict designs associated with the soakage water sites at the claypan site of Watanuma, north-west of the Kintore Community. A group of women camped at this site before travelling to the rockhole site of Malparingya and continuing east to Pinari, also north-west of Kintore. While in the area the women gathered the edible fruit known as pura (also known in Pintupi as pintalypa), or bush tomato, from the small shrub Solanum cheppendalei. This fruit is the size of a small apricot and, after the seeds have been removed, can be stored for long periods by halving the fruit and skewering them onto a stick.

Biography

Sally (Sharlena) Rowe Nakamarra, known professionally as Sally Rowe Nakamarra was born in Mparntwe/Alice Springs in 1986. She is the daughter of Papunya Tula artist Bundi Rowe Tjupurrula and Nancy Young Napanangka. Sally grew up and went to school in Walungurru (Kintore) and began painting for Papunya Tula around 2022. She learned to paint by watching her grandparents Wintjiya Napaltjarri and Toba Tjakamarra paint in the Papunya Tula Artists studio as a small child. Sally usually paints the site Pinari and the associated Tjukurrpa (Dreaming Stories) which she has custodial rights to through her grandmother.