Inkwareny
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Our Story
Inkwareny Artists is the Anmatyerr people of Yuelamu’s new art centre and gallery.
We formed in October 2023. Our goal is that through art, Anmatyerr culture is strong. Inkwareny Artists is conceived by us, seed funded by us, led and operated by us with 100% of monies going back to community, directly to artists and to operate our social enterprise.
Inkwareny means honey ant in Anmaryerr.
Our Artists
We are the descendants of a strong painting tradition including the original dot painters from Papunya such as our ancestor Clifford Possum. We are bush people, extremely knowledgeable of our country, earth, plants, insects and animals. We are informed by lifetimes of living in country and driven by our Angnekerr (Anmatyerr word for dreaming). Our language and Angnekerr stories are strong. We are story tellers and story painters.
Country and people
We are Anmatyerr people right in the centre of Australia at Yuelamu. We are strongly related to people in Laramba and Ti Tree Communities. Many of us are also part Walpiri (to the west). Our country is several hundred kilometres north west of Mparntwe/Alice Springs, situated on the old Mt Allan Station, at the western edge of Anmatyerr boundaries. We are also the descendants of the survivors of the Coniston massacre in 1928. We speak Anmatyerr, Warlpiri and English.
We are friendly and welcoming and proud.
Our Gallery
We will have a wonderful physical gallery that shows our work, when we get our building renovated. The building works are slowly coming in Yuelamu. When it is ready, we will invite you all to come and visit.
Currently our artwork is available here on the website gallery.
OUR LATEST ARTWORKS
Deeply inspired by country to keep Angnekerr (dreaming) strong, here is our latest art:
Featured Artist
Patsy’s work is country. I take clay from my country and make pots. I have lived here on my country for over the 50 years of land rights, seeing all the changes. My father didn’t let me see a whitefella until I was 12. When I was a young woman, I walked between the cattle stations. Coniston, Mount Allan (now called Yuelamu) and Napperby. My husband and me worked very hard on the cattle stations. I was working at Mount Allan in the silver caravan getting clay from the dam. We had a kiln at Mount Allan. We did wood firing at the outstation (Arrungkey). After firing we painted them and then took them to the market. People loved them. Not one of the bowls were left. I am a Mpetyan woman. Living here in my father’s father’s country. I am really happy at this place. At Arrungkey. Patsy, an established visual and ceramic artist since the late 70’s.
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ABOUT YUELAMU
We are a very remote community 3 hours drive north west of Mparntwe/Alice Springs up the Tanami Road on the Yalpirakina Aboriginal Land Trust. The community of Yuelamu and outstations are situated on the old Mt Allan Station. Our country is at the western edge of Anmatyerr boundaries. We are about 200 Anmatyerr people. In our community we have limited services including a K-12 school, a two day a week health clinic, council services and a store. We have restricted drinking water but we are rich in country and culture.
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