Stock Room Show - Summer 2012

A Collection of Contemporary Modern Aboriginal Art

Stock Room Show - Summer 2012

A Collection of Contemporary Modern Aboriginal Art

Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by JORNA NAPURRURLA NELSON of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming) - Yumurrpa. [4350/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen) Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by JORNA NAPURRURLA NELSON of Warlukurlangu Artists (Yuendumu). The title is Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming) - Yumurrpa. [4350/07] (Acrylic on Belgian Linen)
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JORNA NAPURRURLA NELSON

Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dreaming) - Yumurrpa
4350/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 Yarla Jukurrpa (Bush Potato Dr… | 4350/07
Acrylic on Belgian Linen
 91 x 61cm | 35.83 x 24.02in
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’Yarla’ (bush potato, Ipomea costata) are tasty, fibrous tubers that grow beneath a low spreading plant, found by looking for cracks in the ground. This Jukurrpa comes from a place to the west of Yuendumu called Yumurrpa where rockholes were formed by the roots of ancestral ’yarla’ plants breaking up the ground.

This Dreaming belongs to Jupurrurla/Jakamarra men and Napurrula/Nakamarra women. Nakamarra and Napurrula ’karnta’ (women) are shown sitting down at Yumurrpa gathering ’yarla’ with ’karlangu’ (digging sticks) and placing them in ’parraja’ (wooden carrying dishes).

In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, associated sites and other elements. In paintings of this Jukurrpa women are usually depicted by ‘U’ shapes while the

’Yarla’ (bush potato, Ipomea costata) are tasty, fibrous tubers that grow beneath a low spreading plant, found by looking for cracks in the ground. This Jukurrpa comes from a place to the west of Yuendumu called Yumurrpa where rockholes were formed by the roots of ancestral ’yarla’ plants breaking up the ground.

This Dreaming belongs to Jupurrurla/Jakamarra men and Napurrula/Nakamarra women. Nakamarra and Napurrula ’karnta’ (women) are shown sitting down...