Walka Board by Maruku Arts
$110.00
Out of stock
Walka boards is a contemporary way of continuing to celebrate, teach and live life through the Tjukurpa (the dreaming). Both the dot painting and etching techniques, where walka is burnt into the wood with wire heated on a wood fire, have become Centralian traditions, evolving with the adaptation of traditional design for public display and as a depiction of Tjukurpa and landscape.
Burnt Etching On Plywood
15cm x 30cm
Maruku fittingly translates to belonging to black, as Maruku Arts is owned and operated by Anangu, who come from the Western and Central Deserts. For 35 years this collective has functioned as a not-for-profit art corporation across 22 communities in the NPY Lands, serving more than 500 artists. It is the only organisation concentrating on punu (wood carving) in the Central and Western Desert area.
