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click on the painting to enlarge | Nancy Ross creating her paintings 2006 |
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NR200113-9436 |
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Biography: Nancy Ross Nungurrayi was born around 1935. Nancy work is represented in corporate and private collectors in Australia and throughout the world. She was included in the famous "Kiwirrkura" project, paintings were published in “Papunya Tula" and auctioned to raise funds for the "Kintore" home. Birthsite: “Karrku”, a large hill south of Kiwirrkura approximately 800km West of Alice Springs. Language/Tribal Group: Ngaatjatjarra and Pintupi/Luritja.
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Painting:
The concentric circles refer to the locations used for ceremony. The parallel lines that connect each of these sites are song lines established during ancestral activity. These are used during the movement from one site to the next and provide evidence of the presence of ancestral beings. The main site is known as “Marrapinti” and it is here the women gathered for ceremony during the time of creation. They gathered “kumparapara” native tomato. The dried fruit was ground to paste and baked in hot coals. The women can be seen depicted as “U” shapes and the background colours and designs represent various aspects of the landscape such as sand dunes and rock escarpments known as “tali” and “puli” respectively. Nancy paints her “Karrku” story. The word karrku refers to red ochre. Many of Nancy’s paintings depict women grinding wangunu, a grass seed used to make traditional damper. Apart from the symbols used to represent the women and their activities, Nancy depicts sand hills, (tali) and the rocky hills (puli) as a series of curved linear patterns. Nancy
was included in the Kiwirrkura Women’s project the result of which was a
large painting auctioned to raise funds for the Kintore renal unit. This
painting is published in the “Papunya Tula". Nancy’s stories include; “Mantarrkurra”,
“Tunitjarra”- kunkga tjuta or “many women”, “Marrapinti” –
women’s business. “Mamuttjulku” – Nancy’s (Tjapaltjarri) father’s site.
Also she paints “Mantjintjalkara” area located in the Karrku area and
“Wirunya” story about a ceremonial skirt worn by women.
COLLECTIONS:
Nancy Ross Nungurrayi work is represented by corporate and private collectors in Australia and throughout the world. |
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