Athena Nangala Granites, Napaljarri-warnu Jukurrpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming)
FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Karnta Jukurrpa - Women's Business
Karnta Jukurrpa - Women's Business
1st April - 31st June, Hearth Galleries - Healesville
Pauline Napangardi Gallagher and Cherylyn Npangardi Granites
Warlpiri woman and Warlukurlangu Artist, Pauline Gallagher paints the epic story of Mina Mina Jukurrpa or Mina Mina Dreaming, a story of ancestral women traveling from west to east across Country. Their creative powers are expressed through dance, ceremony, and their collaborative digging for food with their karlangu (digging sticks). These stories are depicted through sinuous lines representing nyalyipi (snakevine), circles and roundels as jintiparnta (bush truffles) and straight lines (digging sticks).
Minia Mina Jukurrpa is an important source of Warlpiri ritual knowledge and social organisation, particularly relating to the different roles performed by men and women. It alludes to an earlier time in which social and ritual roles were reversed, and in which women controlled the sacred objects and weapons now exclusively 'owned' by men.
Born in 1952 in Yuendumu, Pauline moved to Nyirripi in 1983 where she still lives. Pauline’s country is Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a sacred water hole located near Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu and approximately 350 km north-west of Alice Springs. Pauline has been painting since 2006 with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation.
Cherylyn Napangardi Granites paints Nguru Yurntumu-wana, or Country Around Yuendumu, including the natural features of the area such as rocky hills, creeks, soakages and waterholes. These sites are associated with different Jukurrpa or Dreaming Stories important to Warlpiri culture. Cherylyn uses traditional iconography to represent the landscape of the area combined with a range of contemporary techniques such as spilling and dribbling paint across the canvas. Her work is attracting significant attention powerfully bridging the traditional and modern aesthetic. Cherylyn lives in Yuendumu and paints with Warlukurlangu Artists.
1st April - 31st June, Hearth Galleries - Healesville
Pauline Napangardi Gallagher and Cherylyn Npangardi Granites
Warlpiri woman and Warlukurlangu Artist, Pauline Gallagher paints the epic story of Mina Mina Jukurrpa or Mina Mina Dreaming, a story of ancestral women traveling from west to east across Country. Their creative powers are expressed through dance, ceremony, and their collaborative digging for food with their karlangu (digging sticks). These stories are depicted through sinuous lines representing nyalyipi (snakevine), circles and roundels as jintiparnta (bush truffles) and straight lines (digging sticks).
Minia Mina Jukurrpa is an important source of Warlpiri ritual knowledge and social organisation, particularly relating to the different roles performed by men and women. It alludes to an earlier time in which social and ritual roles were reversed, and in which women controlled the sacred objects and weapons now exclusively 'owned' by men.
Born in 1952 in Yuendumu, Pauline moved to Nyirripi in 1983 where she still lives. Pauline’s country is Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a sacred water hole located near Mount Doreen Station west of Yuendumu and approximately 350 km north-west of Alice Springs. Pauline has been painting since 2006 with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation.
Cherylyn Napangardi Granites paints Nguru Yurntumu-wana, or Country Around Yuendumu, including the natural features of the area such as rocky hills, creeks, soakages and waterholes. These sites are associated with different Jukurrpa or Dreaming Stories important to Warlpiri culture. Cherylyn uses traditional iconography to represent the landscape of the area combined with a range of contemporary techniques such as spilling and dribbling paint across the canvas. Her work is attracting significant attention powerfully bridging the traditional and modern aesthetic. Cherylyn lives in Yuendumu and paints with Warlukurlangu Artists.
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Mina Mina Jukurrpa (Mina Mina Dreaming)
By Pauline Napangardi Gallagher Acrylic on Belgian Linen, 122 x 122 cm |
Nguru Yurntumu-wana (Country Around Yuendumu)
By Cherylyn Napangardi Granites Acrylic on Belgian Linen, 152 x 76 cm |
Tingari Men
29th June to 25th September, Hearth Gallery - Healesville
One of the most mysterious of the Dreaming narratives, the Tingari Cycle is a incorporates three major Dreaming tracks from the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts. The Cycle tells the story of a group of ancient ancestors, the Tingari, who travel across the country, taking different forms, some human, some animal. Humans were typically initiated men accompanied by punyunyu, (uninitiated men). The men were sometimes accompanied by extremely powerful Initiated women who provided ritual education. Animals that feature in these stories include, dingo, quoll, emu and kingfisher.
As the Tingari travel over cast areas of country they hold initiations, and ceremonies, hunt and find bushfood, do battle and kill one another, dispose of the dead and bring them back to life, make and use sacred objects, fly through the air, encounter bushfire and hailstorms and have other adventures. The sites they visited become features of the landscape which are now secret and sacred to today’s custodians.
Aboriginal groups that paint the Tingari Cycle include Pintupi, Kukatja, Ngarti and Walmajarra amongst others.
Artists:
Walter Jangala Brown
George Ward Tjungarrayi
Ronnie Tjampitjarra
George Tjapatljarri
Walala Tjapaltjarri
One of the most mysterious of the Dreaming narratives, the Tingari Cycle is a incorporates three major Dreaming tracks from the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts. The Cycle tells the story of a group of ancient ancestors, the Tingari, who travel across the country, taking different forms, some human, some animal. Humans were typically initiated men accompanied by punyunyu, (uninitiated men). The men were sometimes accompanied by extremely powerful Initiated women who provided ritual education. Animals that feature in these stories include, dingo, quoll, emu and kingfisher.
As the Tingari travel over cast areas of country they hold initiations, and ceremonies, hunt and find bushfood, do battle and kill one another, dispose of the dead and bring them back to life, make and use sacred objects, fly through the air, encounter bushfire and hailstorms and have other adventures. The sites they visited become features of the landscape which are now secret and sacred to today’s custodians.
Aboriginal groups that paint the Tingari Cycle include Pintupi, Kukatja, Ngarti and Walmajarra amongst others.
Artists:
Walter Jangala Brown
George Ward Tjungarrayi
Ronnie Tjampitjarra
George Tjapatljarri
Walala Tjapaltjarri
Tingari Cycle by Walter Jangala Brown. Acrylic on Belgian Linen, 122 x 122
a printed perspective
Works on paper and textile by Healesville Aboriginal Artists Print Cooperative including United Mobs in Art.
Curated by Bidjara artist Nikki Browne
Artists: Aunty Kim and Lewis Wandin, Merilyn and Jillian Duff, Jamielee Edwards, Lisa Hodgson, Jacque and Alanna Sandy, Raelene Cheetham, Megan Prout, Jacqui Wandin, Kelvin Thompson and Jo Vose.
Curated by Bidjara artist Nikki Browne
Artists: Aunty Kim and Lewis Wandin, Merilyn and Jillian Duff, Jamielee Edwards, Lisa Hodgson, Jacque and Alanna Sandy, Raelene Cheetham, Megan Prout, Jacqui Wandin, Kelvin Thompson and Jo Vose.
Djirra Binak, Aunty Kim Wandin
Lomandra longifolia
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