Artist: Judy Napangardi Martin | Title: Rock Wallabies (Wackaljarri) | Year: 2000 | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on canvas | Dimensions: 59 x 83 cm
PROVENANCE
Warnayaka Art Centre, NT Cat No. L/00-119
Cooee Art Gallery, NSW
ARTWORK STORY
The Wampana Wallaby Dreaming. The wallabies are carrying on their heads Yarripiri Snake Dreaming. They were joined at Miya Miya by other Dreamings where they held a Jardiwanpa ,Fire Dreaming. The Wallabies home is at Pulatyerre. All the rock wallabies are sleeping. This dreaming belongs to the Japanangka, Napanangka. Japangardi, Napangardi skin groups. There is a big ceremony about this dreaming in which both men and women participate.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Lajamanu, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Judy Napangardi Martin, born around 1940 in Warlpiri country near Yuendumu, is the eldest daughter of painter Lorna Fencer Napurrula and half-sister to Judy Napangardi Watson. She began painting in the 1980s in the Lajamanu Community, Northern Territory. Her work centres around Women's Ceremonies and Yam Dreaming stories, particularly from Mina Mina and Yurmurrpa, her mother's Dreaming site.
REFERENCES
© Adrian Newstead
PROVENANCE
Warnayaka Art Centre, NT Cat No. L/00-119
Cooee Art Gallery, NSW
ARTWORK STORY
The Wampana Wallaby Dreaming. The wallabies are carrying on their heads Yarripiri Snake Dreaming. They were joined at Miya Miya by other Dreamings where they held a Jardiwanpa ,Fire Dreaming. The Wallabies home is at Pulatyerre. All the rock wallabies are sleeping. This dreaming belongs to the Japanangka, Napanangka. Japangardi, Napangardi skin groups. There is a big ceremony about this dreaming in which both men and women participate.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Lajamanu, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Judy Napangardi Martin, born around 1940 in Warlpiri country near Yuendumu, is the eldest daughter of painter Lorna Fencer Napurrula and half-sister to Judy Napangardi Watson. She began painting in the 1980s in the Lajamanu Community, Northern Territory. Her work centres around Women's Ceremonies and Yam Dreaming stories, particularly from Mina Mina and Yurmurrpa, her mother's Dreaming site.
REFERENCES
© Adrian Newstead