Liwirrinki Dreaming, 2003

etching: sugar lift painting and aquatint on two plates

Edition

$700

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Production notes: Plates created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002. Print published in Darwin NT, March 2003
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: The Liwirrinki (burrowing skink; lerista species, squamata order) called Wamarru was a Japangardi from a place called Manceo West of Yuendumu. Wamarru had fallen in love with Yulgrin, a Nungarrayi. She was from the wrong skin group. She had been singing him. So Japangardi, he had been travelling to the place where the Nungarrayi lived. Wamarru turned into a man and made some bush string and then a love belt.He put on his belt and sang that Nungarrayi, Yulgrin. He made love to that Nungarrayi woman and took her back to his country. Two men made a big bush fire for the two Liwirrinki (lover-boy and lover-girl) who ran away together. The print shows women, (U) shapes, sitting in a group performing the ceremony for this story with a ceremonial digging stick in the centre. The male and female goanna ancestors are also depicted. It should be added that all male reptiles of the squamata order including burrowing skinks, have two penises and that this particular skink already had a ‘wife’ at the time he had this sexual encounter with his new ‘girlfriend’.

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c.1930 – 2018

etching: sugar lift painting and aquatint on two plates

Edition

$700

Secure payment via Stripe. Prices in AUD.

Production notes: Plates created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002. Print published in Darwin NT, March 2003
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: The Liwirrinki (burrowing skink; lerista species, squamata order) called Wamarru was a Japangardi from a place called Manceo West of Yuendumu. Wamarru had fallen in love with Yulgrin, a Nungarrayi. She was from the wrong skin group. She had been singing him. So Japangardi, he had been travelling to the place where the Nungarrayi lived. Wamarru turned into a man and made some bush string and then a love belt.He put on his belt and sang that Nungarrayi, Yulgrin. He made love to that Nungarrayi woman and took her back to his country. Two men made a big bush fire for the two Liwirrinki (lover-boy and lover-girl) who ran away together. The print shows women, (U) shapes, sitting in a group performing the ceremony for this story with a ceremonial digging stick in the centre. The male and female goanna ancestors are also depicted. It should be added that all male reptiles of the squamata order including burrowing skinks, have two penises and that this particular skink already had a ‘wife’ at the time he had this sexual encounter with his new ‘girlfriend’.