Wangkatjungka, (pronounced wongka-jongka), is a remote community situated 100km south-east of Fitzroy Crossing. It is located on an excision of Christmas Creek Station and is a settlement of predominantly Wangkatjungka people. Prior to 1971and the introduction of equal wages, the people use to work on nearby cattle stations. Wangkatjungka community was originally on the site of the present school, but moved to its current location when dwellings, shop and clinic were constructed there in the late 1970s.

In 1994 the Karrayili Education Centre was established at Wangkatjungka. A large group of adults attended the centre between 1994 - 1998 to study numeracy and literacy. Their education assisted in their daily life, but also developed self-esteem and confidence to become involved in the management of the community. Adults also gained an understanding of what their children and grandchildren were learning at school and allowed great interaction with the teachers and school activities.

The Centre also provided community members with art materials and some guidance with their use. A number of senior people became very interested in painting as a method of permanently recording their stories and culture. Recounting and recording the stories and country depicted in these paintings provides an invaluable record of Wangkatjungka language, culture and Mythology. This knowledge and information can be utilised and valued by the whole community. Anthropologists, linguists and the wider Australian community can also benefit from this unique cultural record. Money earned from painting provides the artists with an autonomous income and greater independence.

Another benefit was the discovery not only of ancient stories and Dreamings which would have been lost, but also an incredible depth of raw talent within the community and amongst the older people, a painting style and stories which have never been recorded before. Senior Wangkatjungka people, including these artists, have maintained their language and culture despite the hardships they have endured. They continue to practise important ceremonial cycles, often making long trips to other communities for such occasions. Their art recalls and renews the centrality of country and culture, the living experience, the vivid memory.

Today, most of the artists work exclusively on canvas and this has lead to a very diverse flowering of talent within this remarkable community. The talented artists of the Wangkatjungka Community have taken their art and culture all the way from their remote Kimberley community to the acclaim of the US, where they were the toast of the New York Contemporary Art Fair. Though not as famous as the artists of Utopia, or of other Kimberley communitites like Balgo Hills and Warmun, the Wangkatjungka painters have had very successful exhibitions all over Australia.