Francine Kulitja / Minyma Kutjara (Two Women) Dreaming (FK001)

Francine Kulitja was born in 1980 and is the eldest daughter of artist Rene Kulitja and granddaughter of renowned wood carvers, the late Topsy Tjulyata and Walter Pukutiwara.

Francine grew up in Kaltukatjara (Docker River) in the far south west corner of the Northern Territory and also spends time at Mutitjulu Community in the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park where her family was heavily involved in traditional land management, tourism and the arts.

Francine paints the Tjukurpa or Creation Stories she has inherited through her mother, her grandmother and her grandfather.

The artist has painted Minyma Kutjara (Two women) Dreaming, passed down to her by her mother and her mother’s mother before her for millennia.

The older sister was travelling with her younger sister back to their homeland. The younger sister was hesitant to go further north as she had been living with another family near the sea to the south. She had been lost for a long time and didn’t know the country her older sister was showing her.

Her sister carried her and tried to comfort her. She was teaching her all about the country they travelled through. Sometimes they stopped to perform sacred singing and dancing. The further they went and the more singing and dancing they performed, the happier the little sister felt. They camped at Punuwara and Irrunytju rockhole before heading further north to Kaltukatjara (Docker River) and they were finally home.