Tjutjuna Paul Andy

Tjutjuna (Paul) Andy was born in Kaltjiti (Fregon), a small community just south of the Musgrave Ranges in the APY Lands, in 1965. 

For many years, Tjutjuna worked for the APY Land Council as the Mining Liason Officer. His late father, Andy Tjilari, was a widely respected and important law man and Ngangkari (Traditional Healer) who worked for NPY Women’s Council.

Tjutjuna first began his career as an artist at Ernabella Arts in 2011, after attending the inaugural Wati Workshop in the Ceramics studio there. 

 Together with his wife, Tjimpuna Williams, another prolific ceramic artist from Ernabella, Tjutjuna undertook a ceramic residency in Singapore in late 2014.

 Now working as a multidisciplinary artist across the ceramic and painting mediums, Tjutjuna’s unique iconography depicts the stories of the Country near Kanpi, passed down to him from his grandfather.  Tjutjuna paints Kalaya Tjukurpa. Kalaya Tjukurpa is the Creation Story of an Emu being who formed the landscape by carving out the sandhills, creeks, rocky mountain ranges and waterholes as he travelled from Kanpi to Watarru.

 Tjutjuna is now living on Kaurna (Adelaide) and working at Iwiri Arts.