Women's Dreaming, 2008

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

111 x 204 cm

Est. $12,000 – $18,000

Hammer $6,500

Provenance: Red Desert Gallery, Eumundi, Qld, Cat No. RDG240108154-WN Private Collection, NSW
Artwork story: Women's Dreaming belongs to the confident mature phase of Walangkura's practice, its compositional logic rooted in the visual language of Pintupi women's ceremonial knowledge. Seven large concentric circle forms dominate the tall canvas, each painted in a distinct tonal register: deep crimson, cool grey-white, burnt red-orange, grey-mauve, warm gold-yellow, ochre-mustard, and luminous yellow. The differentiation is not decorative variation but the individuation of separate sacred sites, each with its own identity and ceremonial significance. A dense field of smaller oval and circular forms surrounds them, mapping the rocky Country in which the sites are situated, while horizontal bands of fine dot-work across the lower third describe the tali, the sandhills that connect them, traversed on foot during ceremony.

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Sale 3 · Lot 76

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

111 x 204 cm

Est. $12,000 – $18,000

Hammer $6,500

Provenance: Red Desert Gallery, Eumundi, Qld, Cat No. RDG240108154-WN Private Collection, NSW
Artwork story: Women's Dreaming belongs to the confident mature phase of Walangkura's practice, its compositional logic rooted in the visual language of Pintupi women's ceremonial knowledge. Seven large concentric circle forms dominate the tall canvas, each painted in a distinct tonal register: deep crimson, cool grey-white, burnt red-orange, grey-mauve, warm gold-yellow, ochre-mustard, and luminous yellow. The differentiation is not decorative variation but the individuation of separate sacred sites, each with its own identity and ceremonial significance. A dense field of smaller oval and circular forms surrounds them, mapping the rocky Country in which the sites are situated, while horizontal bands of fine dot-work across the lower third describe the tali, the sandhills that connect them, traversed on foot during ceremony.