Tarnanthi 2017

The Art Gallery of South Australia has been partnering with Senior Men on the Kulata Tjuta project since its inception in 2010. In 2016, Nici Cumpston, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art, approached the APY Art Centre Collective with a proposal for a large scale Kulata Tjuta installation. The resulting work was a collective response to the Maralinga Bombing that occurred on Anangu Country sixty years ago. For this iteration, 600 kulata (spears) made by over 100 Anangu men hang in an explosive cloud formation that hovers above an installation of hand carved piti (wooden bowls) made by over 40 Anangu women.
First exhibited at TARNANTHI 2017, this installation was acquired by AGSA, and has subsequently toured internationally.