"Julie and I are family, we have known each other since we were young girls. We went through school together and now we paint at Iwantja Arts together. We made this canvas about our Ngura (country) and the Indulkana community. Growing up we loved to go to the Iwantja Spring. After there was kapi pulka (big rain) the tjukula (rock holes) would fill up and we would swim there." - Rosalind Tjanyari

Both Rosalind’s mother and grandmother were famous Ngangkaris (traditional healers) in the western country of the APY Lands, she has many family members in the Amata community. Rosalind spent a life time outdoors with her mother and grandmother traveling to visit family and friends in need of healing. Rosalind's paintings allude to a healing energy and strive to encompass the desert landscape. Her artworks speak to a deep history of connection to both country and people. Richly coloured, her paintings reference hidden pathways across the lands, and subtly hint at the fluidity of movement and of journeys. Her painterly marks weave colour through the canvas, flickering with an energy and excitement.

Julie’s paintings shimmer with exuberant energy. She captures the intensity and power of country where the Iwantja Tjukitji

(Iwantja Soakage) is located, and which holds the story of the Tjurki (native owl.) Julie was born in the cool waters of the Iwantja creek, next to the large Tjukitji. The area is shaded by large gum trees, and thebanks of the creek nestle close to large boulders. As a child she and her family lived here in a hand-built wiltja (shelter). Yankunytjatjara families played in the creek waters and drank from the soakage. The water gave vitality and life to the area, and provided a cool place for the families to live during the hot summers. This special Tjukitji is where the Indulkana community first began. This place also holds the tjukurpa of the Tjurki who travelled across the desert and came to live in a large gum tree by the creek, to watch over the Anangu and keep them safe.