Minyma Maku : Anita Pumani, Betty Campbell, Umatji Tjapalyi

Three interpretations of an important Aboriginal women's songline. 

The Minyma Maku (Women of the Witchetty Grub) songline belongs to the traditional women owners of South Australia's APY Lands. Here, Anita Pumani, Betty Campbell and Umatji Tjapalyi depict the songline as it relates to the 846,000 square kilometre Indigenous Protected Area of Antara. Near the artists’ home community of Mimili, Antara is rich with rock formations, waterholes and wildlife and is frequently visited and cared for by these and other Mimili artists. 

Granddaughter of one of Mimili's founding artists, Anita Pumani is one of the APY Lands’ brightest rising art stars. Here, her work depicts the country and maku trees of Minyma Maku. Second-generation painter Umatji Tjapalyi paints the women's ceremonies of her mother’s country – part of the Antara storyline.

Although more senior, Betty Campbell is showing her first exhibition works, focusing on the dance and women's ceremonies associated with the songline in paintings that are at once timeless and contemporary.