Artist: Madeline Curley | Title: Seven Sisters Dreaming | Year: 2022 | Medium: acrylic on linen | Dimensions: 90 x 150 cm
PROVENANCE
This is Aboriginal Art, NT Cat No. TIAA-MC202206
ARTWORK STORY
Madeline Curley is the daughter of renowned artist, Imitjala Curley. Madeline is a self-taught artist and has developed a fluid and sweeping style of painting to illustrate the Seven Sisters Dreaming story.
Madeline paints the part of the story where the sisters are walking across country trying to escape from the pursuing man, Nyiru. The roundels on the canvas represent the waterholes and rock-holes where the sisters camped, and the overlay of finely dotted winding lines are the paths walked by the women.
Madeline is a widely exhibited artist, and in 2019 her artwork was projected onto the Sydney Opera House sails.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Fregon, APY Lands, SA
LANGUAGE
Pitjantjatjara
REFERENCES
This is Aboriginal Art, NT
PROVENANCE
This is Aboriginal Art, NT Cat No. TIAA-MC202206
ARTWORK STORY
Madeline Curley is the daughter of renowned artist, Imitjala Curley. Madeline is a self-taught artist and has developed a fluid and sweeping style of painting to illustrate the Seven Sisters Dreaming story.
Madeline paints the part of the story where the sisters are walking across country trying to escape from the pursuing man, Nyiru. The roundels on the canvas represent the waterholes and rock-holes where the sisters camped, and the overlay of finely dotted winding lines are the paths walked by the women.
Madeline is a widely exhibited artist, and in 2019 her artwork was projected onto the Sydney Opera House sails.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Fregon, APY Lands, SA
LANGUAGE
Pitjantjatjara
REFERENCES
This is Aboriginal Art, NT
