Artiste : Mary Napangati

Titre de l'œuvre : Rockhole site of Tjutalpi

Format : 153x122cm

Provenance : centre d'art de Papunya Tula

Le certificat original du centre d'art Aborigène de Papunya Tula sera remis avec l'œuvre.

Référence de cette peinture : MN2007041

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Mary Brown Napangati (Napangardi) was born near Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay) circa 1955. Her family lived in the vicinity of Lappi Lappi, located towards the northern area of Lake Mackay, until they walked into the Mt Doreen cattle station west of Yuendumu, in the Northern Territory. She later moved to Yuendumu, married there and later moved further west to Nyirrpi. After her first husband passed away, Mary remarried the well known artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa and moved to Kintore, where she now lives and paints.

This painting evokes the rockhole site of Tjutalpi. In ancestral times a group of men and women travelled to this site. While at Tjutalpi they performed the dances and songs associated with the area. During their travels the men and women gathered a variety of bush foods including pura or bush tomatoes (Solanum chippendalei) and kampurarrpa or desert raisins (Solanum centrale). They also gathered wood for the manufacture of wana (digging sticks). The roundels in the work represent the soakage waters found at this site, while the lines represent the tali (sandhills).

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Private collections in Australia and Europe.