Ngura Puḻka – Epic Country is an artist-led publication that places major works by senior Aṉangu artists at the centre, presenting Country not as landscape but as living cultural law — Tjukurpa — rendered in ambitious, large-scale works.
About This Book
Produced by the APY Art Centre Collective, this substantial volume brings together senior First Nations artists and collectives from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Coober Pedy, and Tarntanya/Adelaide in South Australia. The works gathered here are not documentary in impulse — they depict Country as a site of law, story, and inheritance, with Tjukurpa as both subject and organising principle. For those engaged with First Nations art, cultural geography, or the intersections of visual practice and Indigenous sovereignty, this is a rare opportunity to encounter these works in sustained depth. The book's generous format — 302 x 207 mm across 306 pages — honours the ambition of the art it contains.
Key Features
- 306 pages of large-format reproductions of major First Nations artworks and collaborative works by senior Aṉangu artists
- Works by senior artists and collectives from the APY Lands, Coober Pedy, and Tarntanya/Adelaide
- Published by APY Art Centre Collective, [Details available upon request]
What You'll Discover
- How Tjukurpa — Aṉangu law and cultural story — functions as both the subject matter and the structural logic behind the depicted works
- The scale and ambition of contemporary First Nations artistic practice from the APY Lands, presented across a format designed to match it
- How multiple artists and collectives from distinct South Australian communities approach the representation of Country as a shared, living entity
- The relationship between place, cultural inheritance, and visual sovereignty in one of Australia's most significant regional art movements
About the Author
[Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 306
- Dimensions: 302 x 207 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9780646736723
- Publisher: APY Art Centre Collective
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Collectors and scholars of First Nations Australian art, curators working with Indigenous visual culture, and readers seeking a serious engagement with Aṉangu cultural practice and the art of the APY Lands.