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Click to enlargec.1932 – 2021
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Kintore (Walungurru)
- Language group
- Pintupi
Marrapinti, 2006/2007
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
305 x 182 cm
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- Provenance
- Yanda Aboriginal Art, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No Private Collection WA Accompanied by a folio of 65 photographs of the artist creating the artwork.
- Artwork story
- Naata’s paintings combine the carefully composed geometric style that developed at Papunya amongst the Pintupi painting men, with the looser technique and more painterly organic style introduced by the women after the painting camps of the early and mid 1990s. She was included in the exhibition Twenty-Five Years and Beyond at Flinders University Art Museum as well as Papunya Tula: Genesis and Genius at the Art Gallery of NSW 2000. In this masterwork, she included visual references to the food collected, the waterholes visited by the ancestral Tingari women, and the encampments where they came together in large groups to share their wisdom and teach their young. The paint is applied thickly, as though moulding a rich and textured surface, reflecting Naatas' feel for the earth, which underscores her own spiritual and cultural foundations and that of her people. Her preference for pale creamy ochres imparts a calming softness to her paintings, while her unhurried compositions seem to bring all elements together with a spacious sense of harmony and inclusiveness. At the time Naata painted this magnificent work her immediate family members including George Tjungurrayi, Nancy Nungurrayi, and her son Kenny Williams Tjampitjinpa, all painted for Chris Simon of Yanda Art in Alice Springs. That artists of this calibre produced such high-quality works for Simons is testimony to the fact that they were remunerated and cared for in an exemplary fashion. One need only look to the quality of Naata's output for reassurance. Her works consistently bordered on the sublime.