Pinuka Lives in Mimili Community and makes beautiful strong and thoughtful baskets. Pinuka works with local grasses, coloured raffia and wool, weaving with great attention to detail and a refined technique. While she has only been weaving for a few years, Pinuka has already developed a distinct style based on her neat and considered weaving approach. 

Tjanpi (meaning ‘dry grass’) evolved from a series of basket weaving workshops held on remote communities in the Western Desert by the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunyjatjara Women’s Council in 1995. Building on traditions of using fibre for medicinal, ceremonial and daily purposes, women took easily to making coiled baskets. These new-found skills were shared with relations on neighbouring communities and weaving quickly spread. Today over 400 women across 28 communities are making baskets and sculptures out of grass and working with fibre in this way is firmly embedded in Western and Central desert culture. While out collecting desert grasses for their fibre art, women visit sacred sites and traditional homelands, hunt and gather food for their families and teach their children about country.