all/bru WANGKA WAKANUTJA HB

The Papunya Literature Production Centre (PLPC) was the centre of community life at Papunya in the 1980s. Fuelled by youthful energy and guided by the community’s Elders – among them pioneers of the Western Desert Art movement – the centre produced more than 300 Pintupi-Luritja readers in a little over ten years. These illustrated books include stories of first contact, Dreaming, community life, plants, animals and more. Some are funny and wildly creative; others are moving and dramatic. All of them are undeniably extraordinary.  

Wangka Wakaṉutja, Pintupi-Luritja for ‘the story has been told’, tells the remarkable story of the artists, writers and readers of the PLPC, tracing the books through creation, use, loss and rediscovery. This is the definitive story of a radical bilingual literature movement, powered by collective creativity and cultural pride.