In this film, artist John West Tjupurrula and former Papunya Tula Artist manager Grant Rundell discuss Portals to Place: Three Papunya Tula Artists – a parallel presentation of work by West Tjupurrula, Lorna Ward Napanangka, Yukultji Napangati – with Tamsin Hong, Exhibitions Curator at Serpentine. West Tjupurrula and Rundell travelled from Kiwirrkura, Australia to attend the exhibition opening.
All three artists are members of the Papunya Tula Artists cooperative in Papunya, Australia, which is entirely owned and directed by traditional Aboriginal people from the Western Desert, predominantly of the Luritja/Pintupi language groups, pioneering the use of manmade pigment and hard surface to depict traditional body and sand painting associated with ceremony.
