Collection: Mitjili Napurrula

Mitjili Napurrula is a Pintupi woman from the Haasts Bluff region, located 200km west of Alice Springs in Central Australia and is the half sister to renowned indigenous artist Turkey Tjupurrula Tolson (dec) and is also a custodian of the Kulata (Spear) story. 

Mitjili’s works are characterised by bold colour and strikingly original forms and she often depicts the country around Haasts Bluff (Ikuntji) in the Kintore Ranges.

The iconography that Mitjili uses in many of her paintings represents the women's side of the tjukurrpa (dreaming) story, showing the trees (Watiya) that provide the wood for spear shafts and other objects.

Her brother Turkey Tolsen painted the male dreaming story associated with the spear making process. 

Mitjili Napurrula was taught her father’s dreaming by her mother, and she considers this to be one of her most important connections to her father because her father’s country, Ulwalki, is where the trees are found that provide the wood for spear making.

Sadly, Mitjili passed away in 2019.

'MINIMALISM IN ABORIGINAL ART' EXHIBITION (APRIL 2022)