Tjunkaya grew up at the Ernabella Mission where she went to school and later worked learning and demonstrating to her peers various domestic skills including sewing, cooking, and house cleaning, using European equipment and methods .
Tjunkaya also worked in the art centre and became one of its outstanding batik artists.
Tjunkaya also excelled in ceramics, tjanpi, print making, spinning and mukata making and her work in these mediums has been seen in numerous exhibitions in Australia and overseas since 1971, in public and private galleries. In the last year (2010) Tjunkaya chose to concentrate exclusivlely on her painting and this focus has seen her become one of the most in demand female artists on the APY Lands.
Tjunkaya is becoming increasingly recognised for her painting, and was collected by Artbank in 2010. In July 2012 she will be exhibiting for the first time in Singapore..
Tjunkaya grew up at the Ernabella Mission where she went to school and later worked learning and demonstrating to her peers various domestic skills including sewing, cooking, and house cleaning, using European equipment and methods .
Tjunkaya also worked in the art centre and became one of its outstanding batik artists.
Tjunkaya also excelled in ceramics, tjanpi, print making, spinning and mukata making and her work in these mediums has been seen in numerous exhibitions in Australia and overseas since 1971, in public and private galleries. In the last year (2010) Tjunkaya chose to concentrate exclusivlely on her painting and this focus has seen her become one of the most in demand female artists on the APY Lands.
Tjunkaya is becoming increasingly recognised for her painting, and was collected by Artbank in 2010. In July 2012 she will be exhibiting for the first time in Singapore..