APY Lands Aboriginal Art
A selection of paintings showing the styles from this Aboriginal art region - some paintings may still be available for sale, while some may have been sold.
 Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Kay Baker | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Venita Woods | Minyma Kutjara |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurrpa |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurpa |  Imitjala Curley | My Country |  Julie Woods | Minyma Kutjara |  Debra Umala | Rainbow Snake and Waterholes |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Patricia Baker | Kalaya Tjukurpa – Emu Dreaming |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Clarise Tunkin and Kay Baker | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Pollyanne Smith & Mantuna George | Mamungari Tjukurrpa – Mother’s Country |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurpa |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurpa |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Pollyanne Smith & Mantuna George | Mamungari Tjukurrpa – Mother’s Country |  Debra Umala | Rainbow Snake and Waterholes |  Patricia Tunkin & Clarise Tunkin | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Clarise Tunkin | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Janice Stanley | Pantu Salt Lakes |  Janice Woods | Minyma Kutjara |  Susan Tjitayi | Pukara |  Alison Munti Riley | Kungka Kutjara |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Janice Stanley | Pantu Salt Lakes |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurpa |  Madeline Curley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Meredith Curley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Alison Munti Riley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurpa |  Rhoda Tjitayi | Piltati Tjukurpa |  Madeline Curley | Seven Sisters Dreaming |  Teresa Baker | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Anton Baker | Kalaya Tjukurpa – Emu Dreaming |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Janice Stanley | Pantu Salt Lakes |  Carolanne Ken | Minyma Marlilu Tjukurrpa |  Elaine Woods | Minyma Kutjara |
The APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara) Lands is a major Aboriginal local government zone in the inland of South Australia. It was established in 1981 and covers an area over 100,000 square kilometres of arid country in the northwest corner of South Australia. The indigenous people are Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara language speakers, with about 2,500 people living on APY Lands. There are twenty communities and Homelands centres with the administration centre located at Umuwa.
Some of the main communities on APY Lands include Amata, Indulkana, Kaltjiti (Fregon), Mimili, Pukatja (Ernabella), Pipalyatjara and Watarru. The homelands include Kanpi, Nyapari, Kalka and Yunyarinyi.
Historically the APY Lands had largely been an Aboriginal Reserve since 1921. Ernabella Mission was created in 1937 by the Presbyterian Church at Pukatja and then settlements at Amata and Kaltjiti were set up in the early 1960s. Indulkana was built in 1968 as a centre for government services.
Ernabella is home to the longest running Aboriginal art centre in Australia as it has operated since 1948. It has produced fabrics and woven rugs as well as paintings, ceramics and prints. Today there are over 400 artists working at art centres at Tjala Arts, Mimili Maku, Iwantja, Tjungu Palya and Kaltjiti. The APY Lands have created distinctive and colour-filled artworks that express Anangu connections to culture and Country.