Artist Statement - October 2016
Walungurru is the Pintupi name for Kintore. Kintore is 550km west of Alice Springs, not far from the Western Australian border. Papunya Tula artists are there and it was the place that people dreamed of having a dialysis machine so they could get family home. I have been visiting Kintore since 1992! It is my favourite place to be. I never tire of painting this country. In this picture I wanted to capture a complex sky, full of water and both Men’s and Women’s mountains. This is some of the country that the Papunya Tula Artists paint in such a different way!
I didn’t want to overwork this canvas. I wanted to keep the transient nature of the clouds and the way the sun is lighting up parts of the hills and not other parts due to the cloud pattern. For me, it reminds me of my first trip out to Kintore all those years ago. I fell in love!