Artist: Judy Napangardi Watson | Title: Hairstring Dreaming | Year: 2000 | Medium: acrylic on canvas | Dimensions: 142 x 125 cm
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art Cat No. KA 0030
ARTWORK STORY
In her paintings, Judy Napangardi Watson depicts the women’s Dreaming of the Karnta-kurlangu, a large number of ancestral women who danced across the land, creating important sites, discovering plants, foods and medicines and establishing the ceremonies that would perpetuate their generative powers. The dancing women wore hairstring belts (marjardi) and tassels rubbed with red ochre and fat to emphasise their passion and power. They danced with enthusiasm and great enjoyment. The potent life force with which they imbued the country is evoked in Judy’s love of colour and richly textured, drag-dotting style which traces the sinuous lines of dancing women crossing the country.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Yuendumu, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Born at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, northwest of Alice Springs (c.1925), Judy grew up, travelling on foot with her family, hunting and collecting the bush tucker that sustained them, throughout the vast Warlpiri country that lies between the Tanami and Gibson deserts. Her traditional nomadic lifestyle came to an end however when the Warlpiri, like other desert tribes, were forced to live a bleaker and more constricting lifestyle in the new government settlement… Continue reading
PRICE
Price available upon request. Please contact Adrian at adrian@newsteadart.com for details.
PROVENANCE
Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art Cat No. KA 0030
ARTWORK STORY
In her paintings, Judy Napangardi Watson depicts the women’s Dreaming of the Karnta-kurlangu, a large number of ancestral women who danced across the land, creating important sites, discovering plants, foods and medicines and establishing the ceremonies that would perpetuate their generative powers. The dancing women wore hairstring belts (marjardi) and tassels rubbed with red ochre and fat to emphasise their passion and power. They danced with enthusiasm and great enjoyment. The potent life force with which they imbued the country is evoked in Judy’s love of colour and richly textured, drag-dotting style which traces the sinuous lines of dancing women crossing the country.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Yuendumu, NT
LANGUAGE
Warlpiri
BIOGRAPHY
Born at Yarungkanji, Mt. Doreen Station, northwest of Alice Springs (c.1925), Judy grew up, travelling on foot with her family, hunting and collecting the bush tucker that sustained them, throughout the vast Warlpiri country that lies between the Tanami and Gibson deserts. Her traditional nomadic lifestyle came to an end however when the Warlpiri, like other desert tribes, were forced to live a bleaker and more constricting lifestyle in the new government settlement… Continue reading
