524-23AS, Adelaide Studio, 145 x 145cm, Acrylic on linen
My name is Kukika Adamson, I was born in Pukatja Community and now live in Adelaide. The first artworks I made at Ernabella Arts were floor rugs and weaving. I started work at Ernabella Arts when I was a school kid, and worked there after school. Today at the APY Adelaide Studio I work beside Yaritji (Mutu Mutu) Heffernan and Margaret Richards. We were schoolmates when we were little girls at Pukatja. It's over 50 years later and we are still working together in our art centre. This is the Piltati story, and important cultural story I inherited from my father, Tiger Palpatja. This story tells of two snake brothers and their wives, who are sisters, that lived at Piltati a waterhole west of Amata. This was my father Tiger’s story, and now me and my daughter hold it for the generations to come.
