YURTU ARDLA, NUKUNU AND ADNYAMATHANHA COUNTRY

The project began in 2015 with a series of wood carving workshops in Port Augusta, South Australia, initiated and supported by Ku Arts and led by master Adnyamathanha carver and language speaker, Uncle Roy Coulthard. In early 2017, a group of participants visited the South Australian Museum collection to view artefacts from their ancestors, which have informed their carving practices and has in turn informed the collection. In 2018, Ku Arts coordinated two carving camps on both Nukunu and Adnyamathanha country. The camps included language workshops supported by the Mobile Language Team, and the study of objects made by direct ancestors of the Adnyamathanha and Nukunu participants in partnership with South Australian Museum.