jamfactory

october 2023

Ku Arts delivered a series of workshops at the Iwiri Wellbeing Centre located in Port Adelaide during 2022 and 2023. These workshops brought together senior Anangu cultural leaders to share their stories inspired by homelands, culture and language with emerging Anangu artists.

Supported by multiple facilitators across a variety of mediums, artists found new ways to share and celebrate stories. These stories have been laid down through walka (marks) across canvas, textiles, and ceramics. Looking forward and back, new works recognise the roots of artistic practices and craft movements of APY Lands, from batik motifs to contemporary ceramics and distinct sgraffito motifs. The resulting exhibition of this development project was presented at the JamFactory Collect Gallery as part of Tarnanthi 2023.

‘We are learning new ways together, sharing ideas, watching, figuring out, finding new ways to tell our stories’

—audrey brumby, iwiri art and culture, 2023

Artists

Kunmanara Baker
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Audrey Brumby
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Carolyn Dunn
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Janice Ferguson
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Tjunkaya Ken
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Amelia Namatjira
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Vera Raymond
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Janice Stanley
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Maralyn (Inawinytji) Stanley
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Renita Stanley
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Amari Tjalkuri
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Tjimpuna Williams
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

Lena Young
Pitjantjatjara people, South Australia

The exhibition was well received, and there was exciting feedback for future opportunities. We congratulate the artists at Iwiri on such a beautiful collection of new works.