Bush Tuckerby Katanari Nancy Tjilya

Katanari Nancy Tjilya Burton was born in c. 1939 and originates from the Tjurna Homlands and lives in Amata Community in South Australia. She is a Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara speaker from the traditional lands of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands (commonly referred to as the APY Lands). Katanari has been a practicing artist for many years, experimenting with ideas and the traditional stories from her Dreamings. She is both a painter as well as a skilled weaver with an eye for detail.

Katanari is a regular artist for Minymaku Arts and has taken an active role in promoting culturally enriched lives for her family and kin living in isolated communities such as Amata. In 1995 she also began working with the Tjanpi Desert Weavers which is an Aboriginal women’s fibre art social enterprise which started in the Central and Western Deserts of Australia through the local women’s council. The Tjanpi Desert Weavers have gone on to create workshops and performances around Australia. Most notably their entry into the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, which saw them win first prize for their creation of a Toyota Troop Carrier made from natural fibres.

Katanari’s artworks have been exhibited in group exhibitions around Australia and one of her paintings is held in the Art Gallery of South Australia’s collection.

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