Artwork By Inawinytji Stanley

Artwork by Inawinytji Stanley

"This is the story of the older sister going a long way to get her younger sister and bring her back. They went through many places on the way, but I will only talk about a short bit of their journey at Wingellina. Two women who both came from up high and stayed awhile. They both could see that Docker River was close. And as they were sitting there they performed ceremony, inma. After, they both threw away their weapons, they threw them away. Their head-rings, they threw away their head-rings. Then they got up and left. They went to another place, a hollow called Kantarangkutjara and then they travelled on to Docker River. The story of their travels after Docker River belongs to the Docker River people and others in distant country. My part of the story is short."

Inawinytji Stanley was born in Ernabella in 1967 to Nungalka and Stanley from Young's Well. She is the younger sister of Renita and is part of a family that is strong in both law and in the art centre. Inawinytji commenced working at the art centre in the 1990's and was involved in several group exhibitions and workshops between 1996 and 1998. She then left the community to live in Alice Springs, and after a long absence returned to Ernabella in 2008 and immediately became a very active participant in the newly revived Ceramics Studio.

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