Affordable Art Fair (AAF) - 2013

Contemporary Indigenous Art from Across Australia

Affordable Art Fair (AAF) - 2013

Contemporary Indigenous Art from Across Australia

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PHYLLIS NAPURRURLA WILLIAMS of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu. [608/13ny] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PHYLLIS NAPURRURLA WILLIAMS of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu. [608/13ny] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen)
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PHYLLIS NAPURRURLA WILLIAMS

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu
608/13ny
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming… | 608/13ny
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 122 x 61cm | 48.03 x 24.02in
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The site depicted in this painting is Pirlinyarnu (Mt. Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory.  Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm from Wapurtali.  The two storms travelled across the country, from Karlipinpa near Kintore.  A Kirrkarlanji (brown falcon [Falco berigora]) carried the storm further west until it dropped the storm at Pirlinyarnu, forming an enormous Maliri (lake).  A “mulju” (soakage) exists in this place today.  At Puyurru the bird dug up a ‘warnayarra’ (rainbow serpent).  The serpent carried water with it to create another large lake.  Whenever it rains today hundreds of ‘ngapangarlpa’ (bush ducks) still flock to Pirlinyarnu.  The ‘kirda’ (custodians) for this Jukurrpa are Jangala/Jampijinpa men and Nangala/Nampijinpa women.

The site depicted in this painting is Pirlinyarnu (Mt. Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory.  Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm from Wapurtali.  The two storms travelled across the country, from Karlipinpa near Kintore.  A Kirrkarlanji (brown falcon [Falco berigora]) carried the storm further west until it dropped the storm at Pirlinyarnu, forming an enormous Maliri (lake).  A “mulju”...