Renowned artist Rene Kulitja is one of the busiest women in Australia, and her mission is to build bridges between vastly different worlds, writes Samantha Trenoweth.
“There’s so much to do,” says the softly spoken artist, environmentalist, chorister, dancer, women’s rights advocate, maker of bush medicine, keeper of traditional knowledge, grandmother and renaissance woman of the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) lands, which sprawl across 103,000 square kilometres to the south of here.
“I feel strongly about a lot of different things,” she says simply. “I feel I can help bring people together.” And she does.
Rene is driven by a desire to enrich and protect the lives of the local Anangu people, “and to manage the land in order to keep the tjukurpa [the Anangu spirit, culture, lore] alive,” says Clive Scollay, General Manager of the Maruku artists’ cooperative. “Without engagement with ‘the West’, Rene believes that the tjukurpa will die,” he explains. So she has spent much of her life relentlessly engaging.
Her painting of Uluru, Yananyi Dreaming, was the first Indigenous artwork to adorn a Qantas plane.
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