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Title

Alkngarintja outstation

2022

Artist

Andrea Pungkarta Rontji

Australia

1980 –

Language group: Western Aranda, Central Desert region

  • Details

    Place where the work was made
    Hermannsburg → Northern Territory → Australia
    Date
    2022
    Media category
    Ceramic
    Materials used
    underglazes on terracotta
    Dimensions
    26.0 x 16.0 x 16.0 cm
    Signature & date

    Not signed. Not dated.

    Credit
    Commissioned with funds provided by the Mollie Douglas Bequest 2021
    Location
    North Building, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
    Accession number
    177.2022.a-b
    Copyright
    © Andrea Pungkarta Rontji/Copyright Agency

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  • About

    Art centre documentation for this work states:
    “I grew up there at Alkngarintja Outstation in a little house. This my Country, my mum's Country. I loved growing up on Country. It is nice and quiet, and we would learn about our culture and Country. All the family was living there back then.

    That is my uncles little car, my uncle used to drive round - not far - just to creek for picnic with the family. We would learn from family how to catch and eat fish. Uncle used to teach us how to find them and eat the bush tuckers.

    Now I am living in Hermannsburg, now I am a mum. I take my kids to Alkngarintja Outstation to show them the Country and tell them about my stories about how I grew up there and lived there. Now I teach them fishing and how to cook kangaroo tail.”
    Andrea Pungkarta Rontji 2022

  • Places

    Where the work was made

    Hermannsburg

  • Exhibition history

    Shown in 1 exhibition