Llwyd  February 2007

This collection represents a body of work painted over a 20 year period by the Karrinyarra Artists

Karrinyarra Artists belong to the Australian Aboriginals most authenticated and documented extended family of the Papunya Tula Genesis

The Genealogy page connects the immediate Karrinyarra Artists family to significant ceremonial artistic and landscape relationships

This places Karrinyarra Artists into a web back to the world's oldest  living cultural and land connection

The primary story: the circle is central to most of the art works

Land sites; Jukurrpa creation stories; kinship; song dance ceremony; food and water: are metaphoric  layers of these paintings repainted by the family

These living cultural perceptions are the world's oldest living continuum of people and land

These living cultural practices are passing as contemporary values  re script indigenous outlooks

The stories, the songs, the dance are in imminent danger of being lost as the old people move on

The great value of this collection is its visual validation of heritage from the living continuum

Karrinyarra Artists stands at the center of world history and contemporary direction

 The Karrinyarra story holds the metaphors for a sustainable relationship with People and Land 

This is the

'Story for our Time'