Karungkarni Art and Culture Centre
About Karungkarni Art and Culture Centre
Karungkarni Art and Culture Centre is owned and operated by the Gurindji artists of Kalkarindji and Daguragu. The name Karungkarni refers to the Child Dreaming place for Gurindji people; a sacred site imbued with procreative powers. Karungkarni is a very important Dreaming hill located just south of Kalkaringi. Elders named their Art Centre after this Dreaming to remind them of their important responsibility to pass on cultural knowledge to their children. Gurindji people are renowned for the Wave Hill Walk Off in 1966, when they walked off Wave Hill Cattle Station under the leadership of Vincent Lingiari in protest of the deplorable living and working conditions, and their right to the lands of their ancestors. Our senior artists were part of this movement for Aboriginal Land Rights and ...
Karungkarni Art and Culture Centre
Northern Territory
65 Buntine Highway, Kalkarindji, Northern Territory, Australia, 0852
Karungkarni Art and Culture Centre is proudly operated by the Gurindji artists of Kalkarindji and Daguragu. The name Karungkarni refers to the Child Dreaming place.
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Karungkarni Art and Culture Centre
65 Buntine Highway, Kalkarindji, Northern Territory, Australia, 0852
karungkarniart@gmail.com
0477 958 144
