Panu (All) Paddy JAPALJARRI STEWART Solo Exhibition

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Art

Panu (All) Paddy JAPALJARRI STEWART Solo Exhibition

A Collection of Fine Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PADDY JAPALJARRI STEWART of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Door 4 - Purlka-purlka Jukurrpa (Old Men Dreaming). [572/11] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by PADDY JAPALJARRI STEWART of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Door 4 - Purlka-purlka Jukurrpa (Old Men Dreaming). [572/11] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen)
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PADDY JAPALJARRI STEWART (dec)

Door 4 - Purlka-purlka Jukurrpa (Old Men Dreaming)
572/11
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 Door 4 - Purlka-purlka Jukurrp… | 572/11
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 107 x 46cm | 42.13 x 18.11in
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This painting tells the story of a group of ancestral old men in the time of the Jukurrpa (Dreaming).  It is a story about how the land came to be.  These old men made ‘karli’ (fighting boomerangs) in preparation for an attack upon another group of old men.  The old men chopped down trees and carved a great number of finely crafted weapons.  The old men tried out one ‘karli’, throwing it through the air, where it flew away and then came back to them.  The old man cried out, ‘It’s a good one. This is a good ‘karli’ which has come back truly’.  The old men decided that they were ready to do battle.  The two groups of old men fought with their ‘karli’ and ‘mardarrpa’ (stone axes).  Where they started fighting there is now a group of rocky hills. As they fought they travelled a long way to the south.

When they had finished fighting they buried their ‘mardarrpa’ and ‘karli’ in the ground, where today stands one large rock hole and many smaller ones, formed from the weapons that the old men buried there.  There is also a large sandhill, called Kankarlarra and there is water at that sandhill.  The weapons of the old men also turned into the ‘kurrkara’ (desert oaks [Allocasuarina decaisneana]) that still grow in the area today.  The Old Men who fought at this place turned into falcons, kites, and hawks after they finished fighting.  They are the birds which fly in our skies today.

The Japaljarri/Japangardi men are the owners of this Dreaming, along with their Napaljarri/Napangardi classificatory sisters.

This painting tells the story of a group of ancestral old men in the time of the Jukurrpa (Dreaming).  It is a story about how the land came to be.  These old men made ‘karli’ (fighting boomerangs) in preparation for an attack upon another group of old men.  The old men chopped down trees and carved a great number of finely crafted weapons.  The old men tried out one ‘karli’, throwing it through the air, where it flew away and then came back to them.  The...