KUNMANARA STEVENS
Kunmanara Stevens
c1919 - 2008
Out of respect for her family, and in accordance with Aboriginal custom, the artist's image has been removed until further notice.
Kunmanara was born in the bush at Makiti, the Tjala Minyma Tjukurpa (honey ant woman’s sacred place) in 1919. Her father was a Yangkunytjatjara man and her mother a Pitjantjara woman. When Kunmanara was a young woman she worked at Ernabella Mission milking the goats. “I was a hard worker at the mission, but it was good”. Her husband also worked at Ernabella chopping trees for building projects. Later they came to Nyapari, Kunmanara’s husband’s country.
Exhibitions
2007 Minyma Kutju - One Woman, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2007 The Women's Show, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Minyma Kutjara Kutjara: Four Women of Tjungu Palya, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
2006 Exhibition Marshall Arts, Adelaide
Collections
National Gallery of Victoria