Nyankulya Watson's Ngayuku Ngura tapestry is based on a painting of the same title. In explaining her painting Watson has said:

"There are many rock holes close to the place I was born. I would travel to all these places with my parents . . . Aloysius is the main rock hole . . . The lines are the travelling tracks in the sand from all the people walking to the waterholes and places where the bush foods grow."

The strong reds and magentas contrasting with the black of the background create a tension which is disrupted by the change in scale and media from the painting to the tapestry. To help balance the black background with the reds the weavers used a blue-black and a grey-black, allowing the blacks to recede slightly, and the reds to eloquently emerge.

Nyankulya Watson was born around 1938 at a rock hole near Mt Aloysius (in remote Western Australia close to the South Australian border). As a teenager she lived at Anumarapiti, now an outstation of Irrunytju. She remembers shortly after this time white fellas came and told her family to go to Ernabella (then a Presbyterian mission) in northern South Australia. Nyankulya, a senior Pitjantjatjara woman and a founding member of Irrunytiju Arts, now lives in the Nyapari and Kalka communities in South Australia where she paints for Tjunga Palya and Ninuku Artists.