Exhibitions

Atha era irna arama – Ntaria to India / All The Things I Seen – Ntaria to India

RONA PANANGKA RUBUNTJA

‘These pots are telling my stories about Ntaria life and all the different things I seen in India. I went to India in February 2024 with pottery ladies Hayley and Andrea and pottery managers. Making my stories about Ntari I want to show where I come from and I’m making my stories about India because they are always in my mind. We was eating marna wumpi (spicy food), in Ntaria we eat bush foods and sometimes I cook spicy curry. In India we was riding in tuk tuks, in Ntaria we got bush cars.

We been seen art and palaces and walking around in the streets seeing all the cars and motorbikes. Sometimes we almost got run over! In Ntari we got Western Aranda mountains and rivers, driving out bush. And all my family there in that small place. In Jaipur they got animals walking around like monkeys and elephants. I seen people making ura (fire) on the street, like we mob do in Ntaria for ihurrpa (winter) or picnic. I was really happy to go to India and see that place, and I am really happy to live in Ntaria too’. Rona Panangka Rubuntja, 2024