In this film, artist John West Tjupurrula and former manager of the Papunya Tula Artists cooperative Grant Rundell join Tamsin Hong, Exhibitions Curator at Serpentine, to discuss Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists.
The exhibition brings together two generations of the collective, showing West Tjupurrula alongside Lorna Ward Napanangka and Yukultji Napangati, and traces the evolution of the dot painting practice pioneered by Ward Napanangka. Through shimmering fields of abstraction that both conceal and protect sacred knowledge, the artists evoke Dreamings – expressing a deep relationship to Country and the ancestral songlines that guide movement and safe passage through the desert.
Travelling from Kiwirrkura, Australia, West Tjupurrula and Rundell attended the opening, offering a rare, first-hand perspective on the artist community.
The exhibition brings together two generations of the collective, showing West Tjupurrula alongside Lorna Ward Napanangka and Yukultji Napangati, and traces the evolution of the dot painting practice pioneered by Ward Napanangka. Through shimmering fields of abstraction that both conceal and protect sacred knowledge, the artists evoke Dreamings – expressing a deep relationship to Country and the ancestral songlines that guide movement and safe passage through the desert.
Travelling from Kiwirrkura, Australia, West Tjupurrula and Rundell attended the opening, offering a rare, first-hand perspective on the artist community.
