Yurnangurnu Nola Campbell
Born 1948
Manyjilyjarra language group, Napaljarri skin group
Patjarr and Wiluna communities
Kayili Artists
My family and I were walking around in that [stock route] Country. As a little girl I carried the water. I was following my uncles and my father, Walapayi [Charlie Wallabi Tjungurrayi], who raised me. I used to chase him around when I was little, to get meat. He’s my young father. My mother is [Nankatji] Josephine [Nangala], my own mother’s younger sister.
Nola Campbell grew up travelling in the Country between Kiwirrkurra and Kunawarritji. She is related to people across the desert including, Charlie Wallabi Tjungurrayi and Josephine Nangala, whom she called father and mother, and her auntie, Kumpaya Girgaba. She was taken to Warburton as a young woman and there she married her first husband. She moved to Wiluna where she had her first child, and later married again in Patjarr.
Tika Tika
2008, by Nola Campbell
acrylic on linen, 152×101 cm
Kayili Artists, Tjukurba Gallery
National Museum of Australia
My family and I were walking around in that [central stock route] Country. As a little girl I carried the water. I was following my uncles and my father, Walapayi [Charlie Wallabi Tjungurrayi], who raised me. I used to chase him around when I was little, to get meat. He’s my young father. My mother is Josephine [Nangala], my own mother’s younger sister.
The Tika Tika rock holes were made by Ngirntaka, the perentie goanna. Ngirntaka stopped here for one night during the Jukurrpa before continuing west on his journey towards Warburton.
Many people lived at Tika Tika before Patjarr community was established, including Nola, who camped here as a young girl with her father, and her uncles and aunties.
