Grass Seed Dreaming - Bush Grain - Ngurlu I, 2002

screenprint: opaque paint on six acetates

Edition

$540

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Production notes: Plates created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002. Print published in Darwin NT, November 2002.
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: This story is for the Naparrula and Nakamarra women (mothers and daughters and Jupurrula and Jakamarra men (fathers and sons) skin groups. The print shows ant nests interconnected with the tracks of the ants as they collect grass seeds to turn in to milk for their baby ants. Kulukuku, the bush pigeon, also gathers grass seeds that have fallen to the ground while the women gather seeds from the long stems and use them to make damper. This Dreaming takes place near the Granites in the Tanami Desert at a place called Miya Miya.

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c.1935 / mid-late 1920s – 2018

screenprint: opaque paint on six acetates

Edition

$540

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Production notes: Plates created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002. Print published in Darwin NT, November 2002.
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: This story is for the Naparrula and Nakamarra women (mothers and daughters and Jupurrula and Jakamarra men (fathers and sons) skin groups. The print shows ant nests interconnected with the tracks of the ants as they collect grass seeds to turn in to milk for their baby ants. Kulukuku, the bush pigeon, also gathers grass seeds that have fallen to the ground while the women gather seeds from the long stems and use them to make damper. This Dreaming takes place near the Granites in the Tanami Desert at a place called Miya Miya.