Artist | TJIMPUNA WILLIAMS

Artist | TJIMPUNA WILLIAMS


Tjimpuna has experimented with painting, linocut prints and batik, but her chosen medium is ceramics. In 2012, she was a finalist in the Indigenous Ceramic Art Awards at Shepparton Art Museum. Tjimpuna uses traditional patterns that relate to rockhole (tjukula) or sand dune (tali), and also paints the Tjukurpa of her mother's country - Piltati, near Kanpi in the APY Lands. Other pieces are her personal walka or design. These designs are drawn from batik patterns and from her own interpretation of images from country and ceremony. In 2011, Tjimpuna's ceramics were featured in an Ernabella exhibition at the South Australian Museum. She undertook a residency at the JamFactory in the same year. In 2012, Tjimpuna participated in the Australian Ceramic Triennale in Adelaide. Tjimpuna is employed part time at the Art Centre, her job involves teaching ceramics to the Senior Girls Class at Ernabella Anangu School.

Tjimpuna and Derek Thompson were awarded a New Work grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and in 2013 undertook a big pot workshop in Jingdezhen, China. This work was exhibited in 2014 at Sydney's prestigious Sabbia Gallery.



Tjimpuna has experimented with painting, linocut prints and batik, but her chosen medium is ceramics. In 2012, she was a finalist in the Indigenous Ceramic Art Awards at Shepparton Art Museum. Tjimpuna uses traditional patterns that relate to rockhole (tjukula) or sand dune (tali), and also paints the Tjukurpa of her mother's country - Piltati, near Kanpi in the APY Lands. Other pieces are her personal walka or design. These designs are drawn from batik patterns and from her own interpretation of images from country and ceremony. In 2011, Tjimpuna's ceramics were featured in an Ernabella exhibition at the South Australian Museum. She undertook a residency at the JamFactory in the same year. In 2012, Tjimpuna participated in the Australian Ceramic Triennale in Adelaide. Tjimpuna is employed part time at the Art Centre, her job involves teaching ceramics to the Senior Girls Class at Ernabella Anangu School.

Tjimpuna and Derek Thompson were awarded a New Work grant by the Australia Council for the Arts and in 2013 undertook a big pot workshop in Jingdezhen, China. This work was exhibited in 2014 at Sydney's prestigious Sabbia Gallery.