Tjulyata Kulyuru

Tjulyata is an early career artist who comes from a talented and respected family. Her father is the Ernabella pastor and her mother was a senior artist from the mission days who exceled in hand spinning natural wool and creating knitted garments. As a young girl Tjulyata used to come to the art centre and watch her mother doing batik work. Her aunt and both her sisters also painted at Ernabella Arts.

Tjulyata lives in Ernabella with her five young children. Since starting her art practise she has developed her own unique interpretation of tjukula (waterholes) which she depicts on both canvas and ceramics.

- courtesy Ernabella Arts