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Bush Plum “Arnwekety” 3012 by Polly Ngala

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Bush Plum “Arnwekety”

Acrylic on Canvas | 90x149cm | Enquire | How to Buy |

Polly Ngala lives at Utopia with her family and sisters. She was born about 1940 into the Anmatyerre tribe and is one of our great Utopian artists and is younger sister to Kathleen Ngala, another of the great Utopian artists She began her artistic career in batik in the early 1970′s before venturing into painting with acrylic paints on canvas. Polly is a senior custodian of the Bush Plum Dreaming. Polly depicts the bush plum and its effects on her country. Her works are highly sought and held in many private and public collections worldwide.

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Polly Ngala

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Polly Ngala

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River Country 1006 by Anna Pitjara

kurt — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:00:50 +0000

River Country

Acrylic on Canvas | 95x130cm | Enquire | How to Buy |

Anna Petyarre was born at Utopia in the 1960s. She is related to the great Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Kudditji Kngwarreye. Being a traditional Aboriginal women she is involved in sacred ceremonies. Anna paints Awelye- ceremonial body paint designs which relate to women’s ceremonies when women paint up for a ceremony inside a cave, singing of how to attract a man, and of the bush foods preferred by interested suitors.
The women also learn the laws dictating that they must only encourage the interests of men of a certain clan relationship to themselves.
The Dreamings of her ancestral country, showing the terrain of the sandhill and bush country, waterholes and ceremonial sites are Dreamings of her father and grandfather’s country from the Boundary Bore region.

Bush Plum “Arnwekety” 309 by Polly Ngala

kurt — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:20:27 +0000

Bush Plum “Arnwekety”

Acrylic on Canvas | 90x148cm | Enquire | How to Buy |

Ngaminya 1141 by Yinarupa Ngala

kurt — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:15:08 +0000

Ngaminya

Acrylic on Canvas | 90x120cm | Enquire | How to Buy |

Yinarupa Nangala was born in the Kiwirrkura region of Western Australia. She is a second generation Papunya Tula artist, the daughter of the late Anatjari Tjampitjinpa. She began painting in 1996 and in 2009 was the winner of the Telstra and Torres Strait Islander Painting Award for Mukala, the painting of a rockhole site of Mukala, east of Jupiter Well in Western Australia.
Her paintings refer to the Dreaming path of a group of Tingari women who travelled through Mukula gathering bush foods. During ancestral times a large group of women came from the west and stopped at this site to perform the ceremonies associated with the area. The women, represented in the painting by the ‘U’ shapes, later continued their travels towards the east, passing through Ngaminya, Kiwirrkurra and Wirrulnga on their way to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay). As the women travelled they gathered a variety of bush foods including kampurarrpa berries (desert raisin) from the small shrub Solanum centrale, and pura (bush tomato) from the plant Solanum chippendalei.  The shapes in the painting represent the features of the country through which they travelled as well as the bush foods they gathered.

Bush Plum “Arnwekety” 0269 by Kathleen Ngala

kurt — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:38:43 +0000

Bush Plum “Arnwekety”

Acrylic on Canvas | 90x118cm | Enquire | How to Buy |

Kathleen Ngale, born in the early 1930s is a most senior Anmatyerre elder from Utopia. She is custodian of the Bush Plum (Anwekety) from her traditional country, Ahalpere.  She is recognised for her subtly distinctive Bush Plum paintings representing the changing seasonal colours of the plant and its fruit. Kathleen describes the Anwekety featuring in her paintings, as “Bush Plum”. Artists within the family group include sister Polly Ngale, Glady Kemarre and Angelina Pwerle.

Bush Plum “Arnwekety” 511 by Kathleen Ngala

kurt — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:15:23 +0000

Bush Plum “Arnwekety”

Acrylic on Canvas | 90x120cm | Enquire | How to Buy |