For her upcoming exhibition Maku Inma at Olsen Gallery, Tuppy Ngintja Goodwin presents a new body of work that reflects a significant deepening of her practice. Centred on Antara, a vast and culturally potent landscape, these paintings map an interconnected field of story, memory and ceremony tied to the Maku (witchetty grub) Tjukurpa.

The works move from the intimate recollection of Kapi Warku, the rockholes where water gathers on top of granite rocks and where she travelled as a child, to the expansive ceremonial cycles of Maku Inma (Wichetty Grub Ceremony) that she continues to lead regularly.

In this exhibition, Goodwin’s compositions are more open, the brushwork more resolved, stripped back to essential marks that carry both precision and authority. There is a heightened sense of rhythm, where each gesture holds both cultural and experiential weight.

These paintings are not descriptive but embodied: they reflect a senior woman painting from within knowledge systems that are lived, performed and continuously renewed. The result is a body of work grounded in continuity, yet unmistakably evolving. Tuppy’s paintings hold personal memory, cultural responsibility and the ongoing life of Antara in dynamic balance.