Community: Papunya/Haasts Bluff
Art Centre: Papunya Tjupi Arts (Papunya, N.T.)
Area: APY Lands, South Australia
Born: c1950
Biography:

Kutungka is one of the daughters of Katarra Nampitjinpa, an important Pintupi artist who painted originally with Papunya Tula Artists and then later with Ikuntji Artists at Haasts Bluff. Katungka watched her mother and asister, Permungka, paint for many years but she only started painting regularly after her mother passed away in 1999.

Before moving to Alice Spring due to illness, Katungka used to travel regularly the 100 kilometre round trip to and from Papunya every day to paint her stories. She is a devout Christian who is married to Pastor Murphy Roberts and regularly participates in religious ceremonies.

Kantungka appears to reconcile both traditions with respect and integrity and is deeply committed to the transmission of knowledge of both cultures. She paints her mother's dreaming stories or tjukurrpa from her country near Ulkapa, near Kintore and the tjkurrpa from her own country at Intinti, both of which are far west of Haast's Bluff over the West Australian border.

The stories at Intinti involve women hunting for kuniya or carpet snakes with nullanullas. The two kuniya disappear down rockholes, hiding from the women.