415-25AS Adelaide Studio, 20 x 20 x 36cm, Underglaze on Porcelain
Kukika Adamson was born in Pukatja Community and now lives in Adelaide. Kukika is the daughter of a great artist named Tiger Palpatja. She paints the Wanampi Tjukurpa, an important cultural story she inherited from her father. The first artworks she made at Ernabella Arts were floor rugs and weaving.
Kukika started work at Ernabella Arts when she was a school kid, and worked there after school. Today at the APY Adelaide Studio she works beside Yaritji (Mutu Mutu) Heffernan and Wanatjura Lewis whom she was schoolmates with we they were little girls at Pukatja.
