Walungurru, 2014
Pepai Jangala Carroll
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
101.0 x 148.0 cm
bears inscription verso: artist’s name, date, size and Ernabella Arts cat. 20-14
Ernabella Arts, Ernabella, South Australia
SALON Art Projects, Darwin
Private collection, Melbourne, acquired from the above in 2014
SALON des Refusés, SALON Art Projects, Stokes Hill Warf, Darwin, 9 - 24 August 2014, cat. SAL14 (illus. in exhibition catalogue, p. 16)
I paint my father's country, Ilpili, west of Mt Liebig, east of Kintore. A site beside the road heading towards Kintore. There are huge sandhills and two claypans.
There is a creek, Wanampi tjara, guarded by a rainbow serpent. The Wanampi, rainbow serpent, is chasing a trouble maker, cutting a track through the sandhills.
The Wanampi is looking for that man. He did the wrong thing and he is running into sand hill country. The Wanampi made that road and he brought the water with him. There was no water here before, but it is still there now. Little bit to the east are the Kungka Kutjara, the Two Women Tjukurpa. They are sitting and talking. Wati Nyiru, the man, is a big rock on the hill looking down at them. The women were cleaning out the soak, digging to find water. They made the rockhole there.
I was born in Haasts Bluff. I went to see my father's country when I was a young man, my hair was still black.1
1. Exhibition text from the artist and SALON Art Projects, 2014, p. 17