Overview
Tjuniyanta Outstation, 2021
Lives: Docker River, NT
Language: Pitjantjatjara
Esmerelda Kulitja is the daughter of well known artist Rene Kulitja and granddaughter of renowned wood carvers Topsy Tjulyata and Walter Pukutiwara. As a school student with Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal College she painted with Walkatjara Art and did her first painting for Maruku in February, 2007. Esmerelda grew up in the Mutitjulu Community in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park where her family was strongly involved in traditional land management, tourism and the arts. More recently she has been living in her father’s country at Docker River.
Courtesy of Maruku Arts
Works
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Esmerelda KulitjaTjuniyanta Outstation, 2021Burned Etching & Acrylic Paint On Plywood60 x 120 cm$ 1,300.00
Exhibitions
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Centering
Group Show 26 June - 24 August 2024At mid-year we're reflecting on our exhibitions thus far and preparing for the projects ahead. We've rehung the few remaining paintings by Sarah Brown alongside artists of that country to...Read more -
Waru Walkat Junanyi - Drawing On Fire
Maruku Artists 20 April - 11 May 2024For over 50 years Anangu, Aboriginal people from the Central and Western Deserts, have used heated wire to create markings, filled with stories, on their traditional wooden artefacts and tools....Read more
