Kintore (Northern Territory)

Kintore, also Walungurru is a settlement of aboriginal tribe of the Pintupi with a total of 350 inhabitants, of which 90 percent are Aboriginal. The place in the Northern Territory of Australia located 521 kilometers west of Alice Springs, accessible via the Gary Junction Road and the Sandy Blight Junction Road.

History

Kintore was rebuilt by the Pintupi in the early 1980s itself. In the settlement of Papunya, which had built the Australian Government, the Pintupi were living together with the Aboriginal tribe of Luritja since the 1970s. Through various social circumstances such as health problems and clashes between the groups that speak different languages ​​and are shaped by different historical experiences, the Pintupi decided to move further west, lying in their traditional lands. About 250 kilometers from Papunya they founded near two for them culturally significant hills called Pulikatjara without government help the place Kintore. In 2009, the village has a school ( Walungurru School), a hospital, shops, an art center, an airstrip and a swimming pool.

Artist colony

Kintore is an artist center in the cultural region of the Western Desert. The artistic movement that began in Papunya, was continued after the departure of the Pintupi in Kintore. The artists who came to Kintore, painted on the Dreamtime stories of their tribe. The images of the painters of Kintore are mostly in the style of dot painting ( points - painting) produced and distributed nationally and internationally known.

The artists' colony in Kintore, which consists of women and men, has more than 50 artists, such as Turkey Tolson, Mick Namareri, Kai Kai Nampitjinpa and Nolan Tjapangati.