Ngayuku Ngura (My Home)

Linda Puna is a mid-career artist, working through Mimili Maku Arts at Mimili in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia. Puna spent her formative years on her homeland around Park Well and Sandy Bore, SA. The men of her family worked as stockmen on the surrounding stations which had a resounding influence, instilling in her a deep love for loud country music, cowboys, and storytelling around the campfire. Puna grew up around skilled female artists and storytellers, and it was through watching and listening to the women in her family carve punu (wooden sculptures), that she herself began learning the stories that inform her paintings today.

Puna is the first Anangu woman to live in a remote community whilst being dependent on an electric wheelchair and she has limited movement of her arms and hands. Her unique perspective is told through the bold brushstrokes she has become known for, and using strong colours, her playful practice brings to life her reality of remote community life in a fearless way.