Pulya Taylor

Pulya Taylor (born 1931) is an Aboriginal artist from central Australia. She makes wooden objects, known in the Western Desert as . She makes these by carving the wood and then engraving patterns into its surface with a burning wire. This technique is called pokerwork. The wood she uses is sourced locally from the area around Uluṟu, where she lives.

Taylor was born and grew up around Walytjatjata, in the southwest corner of the Northern Territory. She began working in arts and crafts at Ernabella in the late 1940s. Taylor was one of the first artists for Maṟuku Arts, and she is still an executive member. snakes, the echidna, and the perentie lizard. The animals all have spiritual legends attached to them, and each represents a different creation ancestor from the Dreamtime. Examples of her work are held in the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney, and the National Museum of Australia.