Artist: Tatali Napurrula | Title: Pinpirri (Desert Bore) | Year: 2000 | Medium: synthetic polymer paint on linen | Dimensions: 87 x 28cm
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Cat No. TN 20000527
ARTWORK STORY
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Pinpirri near Desert Bore, north of the Kintore Community. The lines depict the tali (sandhills) at this site that surround the rockhole.
In ancestral times a group of women of the Nangala, Napangati, Napurrula, Napaltjarri and Nungurrayi kinship subsections gathered at Pinpirri to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. During these ceremonies a woman of the Nungurrayi kinship subsection pierced the earth with her wana (digging stick) to create three rockholes. The women also gathered wangunu or woolybutt, from the perennial grass Eragrostis eriopoda. The husks from these seeds are removed by winnowing and the seeds are then ground into four. Water is then added and the paste is cooked in hot coals and ashes to form a type of unleavened bread.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
Tatali Napurrula, born around 1955 at Haasts Bluff in Central Australia, began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1999 before later painting for independent representatives. Tatali went to school at Haasts Bluff, camped west of Papunya at Yai Yai with her family for a short time and then moved to Kintore where she currently resides. Her paintings often depict women's ceremonies performed in her country at Desert Bore, north of Kintore.
© Adrian Newstead
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Cat No. TN 20000527
ARTWORK STORY
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Pinpirri near Desert Bore, north of the Kintore Community. The lines depict the tali (sandhills) at this site that surround the rockhole.
In ancestral times a group of women of the Nangala, Napangati, Napurrula, Napaltjarri and Nungurrayi kinship subsections gathered at Pinpirri to perform the dances and sing the songs associated with the area. During these ceremonies a woman of the Nungurrayi kinship subsection pierced the earth with her wana (digging stick) to create three rockholes. The women also gathered wangunu or woolybutt, from the perennial grass Eragrostis eriopoda. The husks from these seeds are removed by winnowing and the seeds are then ground into four. Water is then added and the paste is cooked in hot coals and ashes to form a type of unleavened bread.
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/ REGION
Papunya Western Desert, NT
LANGUAGE
Pintupi
BIOGRAPHY
Tatali Napurrula, born around 1955 at Haasts Bluff in Central Australia, began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1999 before later painting for independent representatives. Tatali went to school at Haasts Bluff, camped west of Papunya at Yai Yai with her family for a short time and then moved to Kintore where she currently resides. Her paintings often depict women's ceremonies performed in her country at Desert Bore, north of Kintore.
© Adrian Newstead