Artiste : Nanyuma Napangati

Titre de l'œuvre : Rockhole site of Marrapinti - women ceremonies

Format : 107 x 28 cm

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 : NN1707074

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Explications sur cette œuvre et l’artiste :

Nanyuma Napangati was born c.1940 in Kiwirrkurra country. She lost her father Mamutja (b.1899-1964) soon after one of Jeremy Long's Welfare branch patrols brought them to Papunya in 1964. Nanyuma's mother Nangatji Napurrula died in the early 70's. Nanyuma began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in June 1996.

She is the sister of Charlie Tjapangati.

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A large group of ancestral women camped at this rockhole before continuing their travels further east, passing through Wala Wala, Kiwirrkura and Ngaminya. While at the site the women made the nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole made in the nose web. These nose booes were originally used by botb men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. As the women continued their travels towards the east they gathered the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum centrale.

In 1999, Nanyuma was one of the artists involved in the Kiwirrkurra Women's Painting project, which was auctioned to raise money for the Renal Unit at Kintore, an Aboriginal Community in the Western Desert. Nanyuma was one of a dozen women from Kiwirrkurra who travelled to Sydney in 2000 to dance in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

Nanyuma is a Pintupi senior law woman and depicts designs associated with women's Ceremony at Marrapinti, organizing there the creation of nose bones.

Collections :
Art Gallery of NSW.
Artbank.
The University of Western Sydney Art Collection