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Umatji Tjitayi

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Umatji Tjitayi

Umatji is an emerging Ernabella painter. Her first exhibition was for Family at Signal Point Regional Gallery in South Australia. Her work is in the collection of the Royal Perth Hospital.

Her mother, Angkuna, was the first Pitjantjatjara teacher at the Ernabella Mission in the 1950s. Umatji and her sister, Katrina, also took to the profession. Umatji taught as a primary school teacher at Ernabella Anangu School for 20 years and continues to work in the primary school and family centre. She paints after work and on weekends.

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