Untitled, 2007

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122 x 62 cm

Est. $3,000 – $5,000

Hammer $3,800

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. WN0710121 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond, Vic, Cat No. WN2
Artwork story: Kutungka Napanangka is a powerful ancestor figure who travelled eastwards from the Gibson Desert country beyond Kiwirrkura, across sandhill country to an area of surrounding rockholes south west of Mount Liebig. It is her path that Walangkura mapped across her career, and this 2007 canvas is a precise account of one of its sites. A single oval waterhole sits at the centre of the work, its concentric rings in warm amber-gold, cream and near-black expanding outward until they meet four arms of parallel lines radiating to each edge. Above and below, further arching concentric lines press inward from both registers, the entire composition reading as convergence on the site, the ancestral journey held at its still point. The densely layered dot-work covering every register of this canvas, warm gold-ochre against a near-black ground with bands of clear lilac-purple threading through the concentric forms, represents the tactile sensibility Walangkura and the Kintore women brought to a movement that had begun with their countrymen two decades earlier. Catalogued by Papunya Tula Artists as WN0710121, the work is contained at its outer edge by a single unbroken row of cream dots, Country held within a clear and deliberate boundary.

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Sale 3 · Lot 77

b. c.1946

synthetic polymer paint on linen

122 x 62 cm

Est. $3,000 – $5,000

Hammer $3,800

Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, NT, Cat No. WN0710121 Lennox Street Gallery, Richmond, Vic, Cat No. WN2
Artwork story: Kutungka Napanangka is a powerful ancestor figure who travelled eastwards from the Gibson Desert country beyond Kiwirrkura, across sandhill country to an area of surrounding rockholes south west of Mount Liebig. It is her path that Walangkura mapped across her career, and this 2007 canvas is a precise account of one of its sites. A single oval waterhole sits at the centre of the work, its concentric rings in warm amber-gold, cream and near-black expanding outward until they meet four arms of parallel lines radiating to each edge. Above and below, further arching concentric lines press inward from both registers, the entire composition reading as convergence on the site, the ancestral journey held at its still point. The densely layered dot-work covering every register of this canvas, warm gold-ochre against a near-black ground with bands of clear lilac-purple threading through the concentric forms, represents the tactile sensibility Walangkura and the Kintore women brought to a movement that had begun with their countrymen two decades earlier. Catalogued by Papunya Tula Artists as WN0710121, the work is contained at its outer edge by a single unbroken row of cream dots, Country held within a clear and deliberate boundary.