Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Art - 2008

Opening Doors into Colourful Dreamtime

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Aboriginal Art - 2008

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by FELICITY NAMPIJINPA ROBERTSON of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru. [2956/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by FELICITY NAMPIJINPA ROBERTSON of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru. [2956/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen)
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FELICITY NAMPIJINPA ROBERTSON

Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Puyurru
2956/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming… | 2956/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 91 x 30cm | 35.83 x 11.81in
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The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru, west of Yuendumu. In the usually dry creek bed are water soakages or naturally occurring wells.

Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm. It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land. This storm met up with another storm from Wapurtali, to the west and was picked up by a Kirrkarlanji (Brown Falcon, Falco berigora) and carried further west until it dropped the storm at Purlungyanu, where it created a giant soakage. At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake, Warnayarra (the rainbow Serpent) and the snake carried water with it to created the large lake, Jillyiumpa, close to an outstation in this country.

In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, associated sites and other elements and in may paintings of this Jukurrpa curved and straight lines represent the Ngawarra (flood waters) running through the landscape. Motifs frequently used to depict this story including small circles representing Mulju (water soakages) and short bars representing Mangkurdu (cumulus & stratocumulus clouds).

The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru, west of Yuendumu. In the usually dry creek bed are water soakages or naturally occurring wells.

Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm. It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land. This storm met up with another storm from Wapurtali, to the west and was picked up by a Kirrkarlanji (Brown Falcon, Falco berigora) and carried further west until it dropped the storm at Purlungyanu, where it...