Artworks from Yinjaa-Barni artists in the Pilbara have combined with artists from communities 700km east of Kalgoorlie to form the Tjuntjuntjara Punu Project.
The collection of Tjuntjuntjurra and Yinjaa-Barni art is the creative result of established elder artists passing on their knowledge to the children in their communities.
It is the first time works from the young and old have been shown together.
Curator of the Japingka Gallery, David Wroth, says it is a significant collaboration.
"This is a group of senior painters that we have worked with for over a decade now. And (the paintings are) very significant because the painters have had a major land claim out in the remote parts of the Great Victoria Desert , 700km east of Kalgoorlie," he said.
"So this is a community that live in Pitjantjatjara lands above the Nullabor plains and the old people have wonderful paintings lodged wih the Western Australian Museum."
Mr Wroth has curated art from some of the most remote communities in Western Australia and has been working with the Yinjaa-Barni for over ten years
He says traditional art techniques are being used to tell new stories of the Yinjaa-Barni people.
"It's a history of the country, of their ancestal lands and what we have had is a new project happening in the community. So kids and elders engaged in using traditional techniques, carving wood, carving traditional timbers and making a whole range of sculptures and artifacts," says Mr Wroth.
Despite the distances involved, the school children and artists did manage to make their exhibition's launch last week.
"The Yinjaa-Barni artists have this finesse with using very fine dot painting to create the Pilbara landcape so we get a real sense of their connection with country, their connection with the old places as part of their clan lands, the wonderful feelings of the land regenerating. So we get the colour, the seeds, the flowers, everything that comes with the rejuvenation of the land after the rains," says Mr Wroth.
The involvement of children in the Tjuntjuntjara Punu Project has opened up the opportunity for more unique wood sculptures from some of the most remote places on the planet.
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