Nyinga Tjukurrpa

This painting depicts Joy’s maternal grandmother’s birthplace of Katjalurlu, which is west of the WA border near the Irrunytju turnoff on the Warakurna road, in Ngaanyatjarra country. On the other side of the turnoff, there’s a bore; if you go further into the bush there you’ll find Katjalurlu. There is one kapi, rockhole, there. Around that place are karu (creeks), puli (rocky mountains) and tali (sandhills). When there are clouds in the sky, the landscape is patterned with shadows.

The story at this place is Nyinga Tjukurrpa, ice dreaming. This story comes from the south. Joy learnt this story from her grandmother and mother, Warakurna artist Nanacy Nyanyana Jackson. Joy depicts the women sitting down near the waterhole, surrounded by the natural features of the landscape. She favours harmonious colours and often builds up layers in her works by laying out the composition with brushes, before adding features with punu (wooden stick application).

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