Jillian Giles
Artwork title: Purrungu
Medium: Synthetic polymer on canvas
Size: 147 x 122 cm
About the Artwork
This is my mother’s story at Purrungu near Tjukurla. This Tjukurrpa is Minyma Kutjarra, two ladies, sitting near the rockhole and digging. One of the ladies, a mother with a little baby, gotta go in and get the water from that underground rockhole. But there was a snake at that waterhole so she can’t turn her back to the snake, she just gotta get that kapi and reverse back. It’s mum’s dreaming, I can’t do a different story. I put the lake, the rockhole, the water, and the sandhills, Tali, like my mum always did.
About the Artist
Jillian Giles is an emerging artist from Tjukurla in the western desert. "This is my mother’s story at Purrungu near Tjukurla. There’s a waterhole there. People would come and sit down and sleep there. There’s a rockhole underground, and Tali (sandhills), there’s Kapi (water) and a lake. Iritja, long ago, all the ladies were travelling around getting bush tucker, crossing the sandhills, with their families. When the rain came, they saw all that water. They go other places, maybe Pangkurrpirri or Yilpikarri, but they always come back.