People sleeping in their house olden days

This is painted about the times before community living, in towns.  People made their own houses or wind shelters.  Families camped together and at night enjoyed the large sky of stars and fresh air.  The artist has used Warlpiri iconography which is looking topographically down from above, and combined this with a 2D form where we see the ground and sky full of stars.

The white lines are the iconography depicting a fire, people asleep including children and a baby.  There are 2 shelters – the big arches.

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Medium: Painting
850 x 500mm Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2020
SKU: 29-20

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This is painted about the times before community living, in towns.  People made their own houses or wind shelters.  Families camped together and at night enjoyed the large sky of stars and fresh air.  The artist has used Warlpiri iconography which is looking topographically down from above, and combined this with a 2D form where we see the ground and sky full of stars.

The white lines are the iconography depicting a fire, people asleep including children and a baby.  There are 2 shelters – the big arches.

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Weight 0.8 kg

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About Elizabeth Nungarrayi Ross

Nungarrayi worked at the school for many years in the bilingual education program, developing resources for teaching Warlpiri. She loved to learn and took higher education studies at Batchelor College over the years. Her culture was important to her and Nungarrayi really understood so much about it. She painted when she had spare time, then later after retirement spent a lot more time at the art centre painting.  Nungarrayi did ceremony and song all her life as well as teaching children.  She was a committed member of her church and Kurdiji Law Group. Her art was bold in dots depicting Jukurrpa or in lines again of Jukurrpa .  Another favourite subject of her art was birds including the spinifex pigeon. Her favourite past time in retirement was painting and updating an anthropology database Warlpiri can access.  All the staff at the art centre miss her after she passed away in 2020.

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