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Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm
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  • Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
  • Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
  • Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
  • Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
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Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm - ART ARK®

Serianne Napangardi Butcher, Tali at Kungkayunti, 30x30cm

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  • Artist - Serianne Napangardi Butcher
  • Community - Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff)
  • Art Centre/Community organisation - Ikuntji Artists
  • Catalogue number - 16-SB56
  • Materials - Acrylic on pre-stetched canvas  
  • Size(cm) - H30 W30 D3.5
  • Postage variants - Artwork posted pre-stretched and ready to hang

This painting shows the sandhills (tali tali) at Kungkayunti (Brown's Bore). Kungkayunti is the place where the ancestral women are dancing along the creek bed.

Serianne is one of the emerging Ikuntji artists that shows much talent for her age. The daughter of Gordon Butcher, a founding member of ‘Warumpi Band’ and Alison Napurrula Multa, an already established Ikuntji Artist. Her tjukurrpa (dreaming) is that of ‘Bush Banana’ and Brown’s Bore (Kungkayunti).

A lot of stories are still being recounted of long journeys of people from various language groups, who travelled from rockholes and waterholes to caves and mountains finally arriving at Haasts Bluff. The locals, Luritja people of Haasts Bluff, were already here. Thus Haasts Bluff is a community rich of diversity in language and culture.

Ikuntji Artists was first established in 1992, after a series of workshops with Melbourne artist Marina Strocchi, and under the influence of the then community president, the late Esther Jugadai. The art centre was initially set up to fulfil the role of women’s centre providing services such as catering for old people and children in the community. After first experiences made in printing T-shirts, the artists began producing acrylic paintings on linen and handmade paper, which quickly gained the attention of the Australian and international art world as well as earning the centre an impressive reputation for fine art. The focus changed from a women’s centre to an art centre in 2005 with the incorporation of the art centre as Ikuntji Artists Aboriginal Corporation.

The artists draw their inspiration from their personal ngurra (country) and Tjukurrpa (Dreaming). They interpret the ancestral stories by using traditional symbols, icons and motifs. The artistic repertoire of Ikuntji Artists is diverse and includes for example: naive as well as highly abstract paintings told by each artist in their personal signature style. Throughout the 21 years of its existence the art movement in Ikuntji has flourished and constantly left its mark in the fine art world. At the same time the art centre has been the cultural hub of the community, maintaining, reinforcing and reinvigorating cultural practices through art-making.

Today Ikuntji Artists has eight key artists, who exhibit in Australia and internationally. They are represented in major collections across the globe.

Text: Melanie Greiner, Alison Multa and Dr Chrischona Schmidt