Click to enlargec.1940 – 2018
- Region
- Eastern Desert
- Community
- Atnangkere
- Language group
- Alyawarre (Alyawarr); Anmatyerr (Anmatyerre) – Eastern Anmatyerre
Mountain Devil Lizard Dreaming, 2009
synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
76 x 76 cm
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- Provenance
- Gallerie Australis, Adelaide, SA, Cat No. GAKP0509543 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Exhibited
- Ripples in the Water, Lines in the Sand - Dank Street, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW and Waterhole Arts, March 2010 Black Art White Walls – The Anne and Adrian Newstead Collection (Australian regional gallery tour): Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga NSW, 23 January – 30 March 2014 Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW, 7 April – 12 June 2014 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong Vic, 4 September – 8 October 2014 Moree Plains Gallery, Moree NSW, 1 December 2014 – 29 January 2015 Manning Regional Gallery, Taree NSW, 30 January – 15 March 2015 Burrinja Regional Gallery, Upwey Vic, 4 July – 28 September 2015 Brunswick Regional Gallery, Brunswick Vic, 16 October – 8 November 2015 Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra Qld, 20 January – 28 February 2016 O Tempo dos Sonhos – The Time of Dreaming (Arte Aborígene Contemporânea da Austrália), Caixa Cultural Foundation & Casa Fiat de Cultura, touring 2018 – 2024: Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Brasília, Salvador, Recife, Uberlândia Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba Uruguay: Montevideo
- Artwork story
- The centre of this painting represents a sacred Women’s Dreaming site associated with the green pea (antweth). Depicted throughout the painting are seeds (ntang) of the pea, which are an important food for the “traditional healer” (ngangkar), and the Mountain Devil Lizard (Arnkerrth). The elongated X-shape represents two of the artist’s Mountain Ancestors Dreaming paths.