Papunya Tula: Meeting Place for All Brothers and Cousins

Sally Rowe Nakamarra

Yalti Napangati

Aubrey Tjangala

Adrian Jurra Tjungurrayi

Angus Tjungurrayi

Foreign & Domestic is delighted to present Papunya Tula: Meeting Place for all Brothers and Cousins, a group exhibition of five artists and members of the Pintupi language group and the Papunya Tula Artists collective of the Western Desert of Australia.

Each painting relates to a specific site on the lands inhabited by the Pintupi; each site is associated with a specific Dreaming, or Tjukurrpa. A concept fundamental to the cosmology of Pintupi people and wider Aboriginal culture, the Tjukurrpa is simultaneously land, law and myth. An artist must be endowed with custodial rights - determined by intricate codes of age, gender and genealogy - to be permitted to paint a particular site.

These paintings articulate the contemporary identity of Pintupi people within an interconnected map of genealogy, history, land rights, law, dreams, myths, dance, music, art, power, past and present.