Jungarrayi-Jarra Jukurrpa (Two Junarrayi Men Dreaming)
Artist:
Andrea Nungarrayi Martin
(Warlpiri/Anmatyerre/Australian, born 1965)
Place made:Yuendumu, Northern Territory, Australia
General region:Oceania
Date: 1997
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Dimensions:
83 x 71 1/4 in. (210.8 x 181 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Lam Family
Object number: 2016.14.62
Copyright: © Andrea Nungarrayi Martin
Provenance: Formerly in the collection of Dr. Dorothy Lam; her gift to SAMA
Label Text
Indicative of painting practices from the Desert region, this work depicts the land from an aerial point of view. As seen here, people are represented by a U-shape, based on the impression left in the dirt when a person sits cross-legged on the ground. This canvas recounts the story of two ancestors who argued after one would not share tobacco with the other. The two men angrily chased each other with stone axes around the trees (indicated here by concentric circles) and ended up spilling the tobacco and splitting each other’s heads. Coming from a family of artists, Andrea Nungarrayi Martin paints her father’s Dreamings, which he passed down to her.
(Exhibition label, 2017)
(Exhibition label, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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