Ninuku Arts

Ninuku Arts is an Aboriginal owned Art Centre which was established in 2006 to support local culture, the development of employment opportunities, and the ethical production and sales of paintings. Ninuku Arts represents artists from two small communities, Pipalyatjara and Kalka in far northwestern South Australia in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. These two communities are surrounded by the Tomkinson Ranges.

The Art Centre is run from Kalka and is governed by a committee of practicing artists. It produces high quality art works that depict the Tjukurpa or creation stories from the artist’s country. The term Tjukurpa encompasses religion, law and moral systems; the relationship between people, plants, animals and the physical features of the land; and the knowledge of how these relationships came to be, what they mean and how they must be maintained in daily life and in ceremony.

Ninu means bilby, which is an important part of the region’s Tjukurpa.

Browse Aboriginal artwork from the Ninuku Arts art centre in the Outstation Gallery