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Tjayangka (Antjala) Robin Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa 8/100 2008
Chain stitched wool on heavy cotton base 940 x 870mm $400
Tjulpun-tjulpunpa
This image is taken from Mrs Robin’s painting exhibited in Tjulpun-Tjulpunpa Art - vistas of wildflower
country at the Adelaide Festival Centre, January, 2008. The environment is thriving with life after the rains, with
yellow, pink and white tjulpun tjulpunpa (wildflowers). As a senior Anangu woman, Mrs Robin knows her
country intimately and is custodian of the knowledge of countless generations of Anangu who have thrived in
the unpredictable Australian desert.

Tjayangka (Antjala) Robin is a traditional Aboriginal elder. Tjayangka (Antjala) was born ‘out bush’ into her
small family group. She lived and travelled with her family, learning abut bush tucker and hunting, before
settling at the Ernabella Uniting Church Mission. In Ernabella Tjayangka went to school before taking up some
arts practice, spinning and dying wool, making rugs and clothes and working with kangaroo skins and learning
how to use a sewing machine. Tjayangka moved to Mimili, east of Fregon and had three children, two girls and
one boy. She travelled throughout the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands, working in different places. Later, her family
settled in Fregon, where Antjala started work in the clinic and the school. Her unique style often depicts the
environment of the Walalkara homelands where she lives with her husband Robin Kankapankatja.