Women's Dreaming, 2003

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

91 x 120 cm

$3,000

Provenance: Readback Book Exchange, Darwin, NT, Cat No. NR2003120 Private Collection Vic Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Readback Book Exchange and a folio of nine photographs of the artist creating the work
Artwork story: Nancy Ross Nungurrayi was born around 1935 in the Pollock Hills area of Western Australia and spent her early years at Wala Wala with her parents, in the same country this canvas describes. After her husband died she walked to Mount Liebig carrying her first child. She began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996, among the first Kintore women to do so, and in 2000 joined her sister Naata and senior women including Ningura Napurrula in the collaborative painting shown in Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Women grinding wangunu, the grass seed used to make traditional damper, gathered alongside kapurruma, the bush tomato, in sandhill country — this is the subject Nungurrayi returned to across her practice, and the two solid circles at the centre of this canvas are those plants, the surrounding linear lines the tali, the sandhills of her country west of Kiwirrkura. The nine photographs of Nungurrayi creating this work travel with it — the country, the knowledge and the making held together in a single provenance.

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c.1935 – 2010

synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen

91 x 120 cm

$3,000

Provenance: Readback Book Exchange, Darwin, NT, Cat No. NR2003120 Private Collection Vic Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Readback Book Exchange and a folio of nine photographs of the artist creating the work
Artwork story: Nancy Ross Nungurrayi was born around 1935 in the Pollock Hills area of Western Australia and spent her early years at Wala Wala with her parents, in the same country this canvas describes. After her husband died she walked to Mount Liebig carrying her first child. She began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996, among the first Kintore women to do so, and in 2000 joined her sister Naata and senior women including Ningura Napurrula in the collaborative painting shown in Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Women grinding wangunu, the grass seed used to make traditional damper, gathered alongside kapurruma, the bush tomato, in sandhill country — this is the subject Nungurrayi returned to across her practice, and the two solid circles at the centre of this canvas are those plants, the surrounding linear lines the tali, the sandhills of her country west of Kiwirrkura. The nine photographs of Nungurrayi creating this work travel with it — the country, the knowledge and the making held together in a single provenance.