Art And Soul

1 1 Home and Away What does it mean to be at home for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people? Is it where you live, or the country you are exiled from? Hetti Perkins drives west from Mparntwe (Alice Springs) in Central Australia to Walungurru (Kintore), now home to about 400 people and the newly-built headquarters of the Papunya Tula Artists co-operative, whose chair, artist Bobby West Tjupurrula, takes us into the studio. We tell the story of the genesis of the influential Western Desert painting movement in the 1970s, borne out of a longing for country by a community dispirited by their forced resettlement far from their homelands.