Untitled
Artist:
Ningura Napurrula
(Ngaatjatjarra / Australian, ca. 1938 - 2013)
Place made:Australia
General region:Oceania
Date: 2004
Medium: Acrylic on linen
Dimensions:
48 1/16 x 35 13/16 in. (122 x 91 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of the Lam Family
Object number: 2016.14.65
Copyright: © Ningura Napurrula / Artists Rights Society, NY
Label Text
The application of multiple layers of dots to create a thick surface is a hallmark of Ningura Napurrula’s work and a distinguishing characteristic of women’s painting from the desert regions of Australia. The concentric circles, arcs, and U-shapes seen here are prevalent in Napurrula’s compositions referring to Wirrulunga, a rockhole (an important desert water source) where a group of ancestral Napaltjarri and Napurrula women traveled. These symbols refer to varied aspects of the site’s narrative including rocky outcrops and sandhills, ceremonial body painting on women’s breasts and shoulders, desert raisins, and the evaporation of water symbolic of the passage of time.
(Exhibition label, 2017)
(Exhibition label, 2017)
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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