Canvas + Jewellery from the Western Desert

Ninuku Arts is an Indigenous Owned and Governed Art Centre, supporting artists from the remote Pipalyatjara and Kalka communities of South Australia

Learn More

21 October - 21 November 2020 : New Works on Glass and Paper

Yaltji Ngurru Ngana munu Yaljti kutu ngana ananyi

view online

Ninuku Arts Online Market

Following the cancellation of exhibitions, arts fairs, and festivals due to COVID-19, Ninuku is making a selection of paintings and tatu jewellery reserved for these events available online directly from our art centre for a limited time.

100% of sales through our website go directly to the artists and the studio which not only provides materials and tools for all who wish to make, but also funds initiatives such as creative professional development opportunities, exhibition travel for artists, healthy eating lunch program, and community events.

Canvas Tjuta

Over the course of the last fifteen years, Pitjantjatjara and Ngaanyatjarra artists working at Ninuku Studio have exhibited painting across the world, becoming known for their powerful colour palettes as well as a broad diversity of styles and mediums in which they tell traditional stories of country and everyday life in community.

While the origins of their techniques stem from Milpatjunanyi (sand drawing) and the traditions of Western Desert dot painting, Ninuku artists have grown over time to develop original loose brush techniques as well as to incorporate tjanpi (grass), punu (wood), and kalawatjanga (glass) into two and three dimensional bodies of work.

see more >

Bush Trip by Cassaria Young Hogan - 91 x 91 cm — $1,240

Tali Tjuta by Selinda Davidson 61 x 51 cm — $500

Ninuku Tjukurpa by Judy Miler - 91 x 61 cm — $790

Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sisters Story) by Angkaliya Nelson 121 x 91 cm — $1,560

Ngayuku Ngura by Samuel Miller - 122 x 91 cm — $2,400

Ngura Tjuta (Big Country) by Carol Young - 122 x 91cm — $1,670

Kungkarangkalpa by Anyupa Nelson - 76 x 76 cm — $722

Ngayuku Ngurra by Yamangara Murray 91 x 61 — $740

Bush Trip to My Homelands by Jennifer Forbes 61 x 61 cm — $580

Tatu Jewellery

Every spring and summer Ninuku women forage and clean tatu (gumnuts), quandong, and initinti tree seeds from the bush, which are painted or burned to create wearable art such as necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. The jewellery is made by hand by artists from Kalka, Pipalyatjara, and Irrunytju communities in the arid foothills of the Tompkinson Ranges. Each piece has a unique walka (design), no two are ever the same.

see more >