Yinarupa Nangala Pintupi language group, circa 1959
Provenance
The Artist, painted at Kiwirrkurra, Western Australia
Papunya Tula Artists, Northern Territory, cat. no. YN 0807258
Private Collection, Melbourne
D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne
Collection of Steve Martin & Anne Stringfield, New York
Exhibitions
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 2009 (Finalist)
Twenty Aboriginal Paintings, UOVO, New York, 15 - 19 January 2019
60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art, UOVO, New York, May 2023
Approaching Abstraction: Contemporary Aboriginal Art from Across Australia, Asia Society, New York, 18 September 2024 - 05 January 2025
Literature
Martin, Steve. Twenty Aboriginal Paintings. UOVO Art, 2019 (illus.)
Merlino, Vanessa, and Luke Scholes. 60 over 50: 60 Paintings from 50 Years of Australian First Nations Art. UOVO, 2023 (illus.)
Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards. Art Gallery of Western Australia, 2009, p. 19 (illus.)
"This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Mukula, east of Jupiter Well in Western Australia. The lines running through the centre of the painting depict the tali (sandhills) surrounding the site whilst the two large roundels represent the rockholes at Mukula itself. 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 small 'U' shapes, later continued their travels towards the east, passing through Ngaminya, Kiwirrkura 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) and pura (bush tomato)… The various shapes in the painting represent the features of the country through which the women travelled."
— Papunya Tula Artists