We are nestled in the Warburton Community, which is situated between the Gibson and Great Victoria Deserts of Western Australia, in the heart of the Ngaanyatjarra Aboriginal Homelands. Located between Kalgoorlie and Alice Springs on the Outback Highway, we are approximately 1000kms north east of Kalgoorlie along the Great Central Road.
In the coming months, we hope to offer visitors many tastes, sounds and textures from the Central Desert - a rare insight into the complexities of the Ngaanyatjarra world.
Ngayulu-latju tjungurringkula waarka pirninya palyalpayi, walka, kilarrpa puru kutjupa-kutjupa. Ngayuku-lampatju tjumangkatja nyakulatjaku-yan tjukurrtatja palyantja. Tjiina-latju pukurltu kulira nyuntulu-yan manta Australiala ngurra pirniwanalu pitjala kulira nyakulatjaku. Tjiinya ngayulu-latju palyantja.
We made all of this work together - paintings, glass and different things. This comes from our stories, our dreamtime stories. We are happy for you people from all over different places to look and think about the work we have done. You see, these things were made by us.
Elizabeth Holland
We Made These Things exhibition catalogue statement
BACKGROUND
Warburton Community by virtue of its isolation and strong maintenance of traditional culture has emerged from the last millenium with a robust cultural life. This has found expression in artworks of a recognised quality, which is owned and curated by the community. Ngaanyatjarra people have chosen to represent themselves through this material to a wider public.
Over the years, means of representation have included numerous exhibitions, publications, festivals, and other cultural exchanges to a regional, national and international audience, culminating in a community decision to display and share its extensive reserves of cultural material through the Tjulyuru Cultural and Civic Centre. The centre opened in 2000.
The Tjulyuru Regional Arts Gallery presents an exhibition programme based on the lifestyles, histories and vibrant stories of the Ngaanyatjarra. Some of this material has derived from a permanent collection reflecting a wide range of community interests and concerns - social, cultural, historic, and economic - and as such are potent expressions of Ngaanyatjarra cultural significance.
Many works from the Ngaanyatjarra artists have been and continue to be held and archived within the Warburton Arts Collection. This is the most substantial collection of Aboriginal art in the country under the direct ownership and control of Aboriginal people.
It is a new period in a programme that has evolved since the establishment of the Warburton Arts Project in 1990 continuing through to current projects such as the vibrant Nintirringkula Youth Arts.
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Group painting at Kalkakutjarra
First return to Talitjarra, Elizabeth Holland’s birthplace, 1993.
Rosequeen and Elfreda - 2 sisters
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