Yaritji Jack Pitjantjatjara, b. 1981

Yaritji is a talented ceramic artist and young mother of two daughters. She works at the art centre when they are at school. Yaritji worked as an Aboriginal Arts Worker at Ernabella Arts and during this time she started to experiment with painting and photography.

Her father, Rupert Jack, is a senior artist at Ernabella Arts and Chair of the Ernabella community council. Rupert Jack is a senior Pitjantjatjara artist at Ernabella Arts working between the painting and ceramics studios. He is also the community pastor. He lives between his homeland, a place named Racecourse, and Ernabella (Pukatja) community. He is renowned for his striking hand- built forms that speak of his country, law and faith. His work depicts the maku (witchetty grub), tjala (honey ants), ili (bush fig), kaltu kaltu (bush seed that is ground into a flour to make a kind of damper and also Rupert’s father’s name) and ngata (bush berry) dreamings, as well as biblical stories of Moses and Abraham.