Venita Woods b. 1988

Like
many of her family members, Venita’s paintings depict Minyma Kutjara (Two
Women), a “big story” that intersects many language groups in the Central and
Western Desert regions. The songline details the journey of two women as they
travel across Country, changing form into animals or elements to pass through
certain areas. The movements of the two women create features of the landscape
as they walked, rested, and performed ceremony. The waterholes and sites where
the women camped on their travels are depicted, as well as other topographic
details of the country. There are variations to the Minyma Kutjara Dreaming
story; Venita captures the textured topography of her own ancestral country in
the APY Lands, in particular the Musgrave Ranges - rockholes, creek beds, rocky outcrops and the undulations of the sandhills.