Spinifex Arts Project has been the creative means for the Spinifex People since they established it in 1997 and who famously submitted two large-scale collaborative paintings as part of their successful Native Title determination for the return of the Spinifex Lands in 2000.

The Spinifex Arts Project began as a series of ‘bush painting camps’ where culture, country and creativity combined and blossomed into a renowned arts practice.Today, Spinifex Arts Project is a dynamic arts hub with a purpose-built painting studio in Tjuntjuntjara Community that artists access daily and an adjoining multi-media space, Milpa, that operates on a project-to-project timeline. The Spinifex Artists are recognised and highly sought after both domestically and on the global stage and have a full program of exhibitions each year.

There is an assured inter-generational transference of the Spinifex aesthetic that the younger artists embrace within their own creative expressions to take the project forward and in doing so forge new territory both aesthetically and commercially with growth and stability into the future.

Spinifex Arts Project-tu mulapa nganampa tjantungku. Nganampa walka nganampa ngura kutupa tjuṯa maḻaku mantjintjaku alpamilaṉu. Panya paluṟu warka wiṟu nganampa munu Tjukurpa kuṉpu kanyini munu Aṉangu tjuṯa pika wiya nyinanyi munula tjimari mantjilpai. Nganaṉa art centre-ku kuṉpu puḻkaringantjaku kala tjitji tjuṯangku nintiringkula ngananalanguṟu kala nganampa Tjukurpa rawa kanyilpai.

The Spinifex Arts Project truly belongs to us. Painting helped us get our land back. It’s good work for keeping our culture strong, our people healthy and earning some money. All of us must grow the art centre up to be strong so the young people can learn from us and keep our Tjukurpa (Stories) going.

- Lennard Walker