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VARIOUS WARLAYIRTI ARTISTS (COLLABORATIVE)
Nynmi137-16
Acrylic on Linen
Nynmi | 137-16
Acrylic on Linen
180 x 150cm | 70.87 x 59.06in
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Five Warlayirti artists, Imelda (Yukenbarri) Gugaman, Ann (Frances) Nowee (Nanguri), Geraldine Nowee, Madeline Nowee and Theresa Nowee have collaborated on this major painting to depict the country around Nynmi, on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. This is the country belonging to the artists’ fathers.
The artists visited this sacred site together in 2015 and said it was ideal for their painting. The central circle indicates a sacred rockhole, Minyilpa warniri, where the water never runs out. People refer to this as ’living water’. The two yellow undulating lines represent tali (sand dunes) and the many dots depict the bush tucker and seeds that grow around the rockhole. Local women would walk around this country collecting seeds to make damper with and hunting for bush tucker including goanna, blue tongue lizards and sand frogs that hide under the sand. The men would hunt for kangaroos and wild ’pussycats’.
The artists visited this sacred site together in 2015 and said it was ideal for their painting. The central circle indicates a sacred rockhole,... Read More