Rockhole Site at Marrapinti, 2018

synthetic polymer paint on linen

61 x 31 cm

$1,200

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Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. LN1803023 Utopia Art Sydney Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 25 November 2023, Lot No. 238 Private Collection NSW Accompanied by an original certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists
Exhibited: Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, 2018
Artwork story: This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, situated in a creek west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A group of ancestral women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections camped at this site during their travels towards the east. 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 bones were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. The women later continued travelling east gathering the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum centrale. These berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper.

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synthetic polymer paint on linen

61 x 31 cm

$1,200

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. LN1803023 Utopia Art Sydney Davidson Auctions, Australian & International Art, Sydney, 25 November 2023, Lot No. 238 Private Collection NSW Accompanied by an original certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists
Exhibited: Sydney Contemporary Art Fair, Sydney, NSW, 2018
Artwork story: This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Marrapinti, situated in a creek west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A group of ancestral women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections camped at this site during their travels towards the east. 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 bones were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. The women later continued travelling east gathering the edible berries known as kampurarrpa or desert raisin from the small shrub Solanum centrale. These berries can be eaten straight from the bush but are sometimes ground into a paste and cooked in the coals to form a type of damper.