Artist | IYAWI WIKILYIRI

Artist | IYAWI WIKILYIRI



IYAWI WIKILYIRI

Wati Kutjara


12187
Acrylic on Linen
120 x 150cm | 47.24 x 59.06in
Tjungu Palya Artists

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Iyawi was born in the bush near Ernabella around 1945.

She did some schooling at the Ernabella Mission before working in the craft room where traditional spinning skills were combined with new techniques to develop a small scale carpet making industry.

Iyawi's mother was a Yankunytjatjara women from Ernabella and he father was a Pitjantjatjara man from Pukara.

Iyawi paints Pukara which is her fathers country and where she spent a lot of her childhood..



Iyawi was born in the bush near Ernabella around 1945.

She did some schooling at the Ernabella Mission before working in the craft room where traditional spinning skills were combined with new techniques to develop a small scale carpet making industry.

Iyawi's mother was a Yankunytjatjara women from Ernabella and he father was a Pitjantjatjara man from Pukara.

Iyawi paints Pukara which is her fathers country and where she spent a lot of her childhood..



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