Community: Watarru
Art Centre: Tjungu Palya Arts (Nyapari, S.A.)
Area: Nyapari
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Biography:

Iyawi was born in the bush near Ernabella around 1945.  She did some schooling at the Ernabella Mission before working in the craft room where traditional spinning skills were combined with new techniques to develop a small scale carpet making industry.  Iyawi’s mother was a Yankunytjatjara women from Ernabella and her father was a Pitjantjatjara man from Pukura.  Iyawi paints Pukura which is her father’s country and where she spent alot of her childhood.