Overview
About Walkatjara Art
Why stop
- Artists may explain the stories and people behind their work.
Heads up
- Seeing artists paint depends on who is working that day.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta Tour Guide
Your drive to Walkatjara Art, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Cultural Centre: Stories, Art and a Café“You're coming up on the Cultural Centre, with exhibits, community-owned galleries and a café in one stop.”
Plays as you drive up to Walkatjara Art in the Parkwolf Uluru-Kata Tjuta Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- A Finch Nest Built by Two
- Uluṟu: Mala Walk and Kaṉtju Gorge
- Kuniya Walk: Muṯitjulu Waterhole
- Paint from the Country
- 40 audio storiesacross Uluru-Kata Tjuta’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Dromedary Camel, Black-breasted Kite, Brown Falcon, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 15 trails, 28 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
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Guide
More about Walkatjara Art
A working studio in the Cultural CentreWalkatjara Art is the Muṯitjulu community’s Aṉangu-owned studio and gallery inside the…
Walkatjara Art is the Muṯitjulu community’s Aṉangu-owned studio and gallery inside the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre. Browse original paintings, and if artists are working, you may be able to watch them paint and hear about the work from people who know it. That conversation is the reason to linger, but artists aren’t there every time.
Make it part of a longer stopThe gallery is one part of the larger Cultural Centre, alongside its exhibits, information…
The gallery is one part of the larger Cultural Centre, alongside its exhibits, information displays and tunnel. Allow about two hours for the whole centre; that’s not a two-hour expectation for this gallery alone. The centre is a 10–15 minute drive from the park entry station along the road to Uluru.
The Ininti café is also at the Cultural Centre and is the park’s only place to buy food or drinks. It’s a separate stop from the gallery.
What the name meansWalkatjara combines walka, meaning designs or meaningful marks, with tjara, meaning having.
Walkatjara combines walka, meaning designs or meaningful marks, with tjara, meaning having. The paintings draw on local Tjukurpa and desert life. Some stories are shared with visitors where appropriate, so let the artists and staff guide what they can explain.
Who the work supportsWalkatjara is a not-for-profit community enterprise.
Walkatjara is a not-for-profit community enterprise. Artists receive half the sale price of a painting; the rest goes back into the art centre and Muṯitjulu community projects, including creative work, training and employment.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Uluru-Kata Tjuta
32 sightingsDromedary CamelMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
14 sightingsBlack-breasted KiteMost seen around 10 AMSighting map
27 sightingsBrown FalconMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
11 sightingsWestern Brown SnakeMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
32 sightingsMain's FrogMost seen around 7 PMSighting map
17 sightingsRed-backed KingfisherMost seen around 7 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Uluru-Kata Tjuta. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
