Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa has been painting for over 25 years she is married to Dick Brown an accomplished artist.  Sabina is a respected senior woman and she assisted at the World Vision projects. Her paintings speak about the country, teaching young about flora and fauna and the family knowledge of the country.

BIOGRAPHY

Artist:     Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa
Title:      BUSH Onion Ceremony  
Medium: Acrylic on Belgian linen
Image Size: 122 x 92 m
Signed:  on reverse
Price (framed):     A$6,500 - a contemporary gold leaf frame included
Certificate from Warumpi Community Art Centre, Alice Springs

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Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa Biography

Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa has been painting for over 25 years she is married to Dick Brown an recognized artist.  Sabina is a respected senior woman and she assisted at the World Vision projects. Her paintings speak about the country, teaching young about flora and fauna and the family knowledge of the country. Women hold ceremonies to honor the ancestral beings for plentiful and abundance of food and decorate their bodies with body paint and feathers. This painting depicts women in their traditional role collecting Bush onion at Karrinyarra at Mt Wedge 70 km from Papunya, Central desert region of Australia. The “U” shapes represent women along with their digging sticks. The concentric circles represent sacred sites. The dotting represents body paint design the women wear during the ceremonies.

BUSH Onion Ceremony
This painting depicts women in their traditional role collecting Bush onion at Karrinyarra at Mt Wedge 70 km from Papunya, Central desert region of Australia. The “U” shapes represent women along with their digging sticks. The concentric circles represent sacred sites. The dotting represents body paint design the women wear during the ceremonies. Women hold ceremonies to honor the ancestral beings for plentiful and abundance of food and decorate their bodies with body paint and birds feathers.

Source & FURTHER REFERENCES:
        "Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert - A Biographical Dictionary" by Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994,
        "The Oxford Companion to Aboriginal Art and Culture" edited by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale published by OUP 2000,
        “Australian Aboriginal Artist Encyclopedia” – dictionary of biographies” Kreczmanski, Janusz B & Birnberg, Margo (eds.): Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies: Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region (JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004).
       Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody, A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database;  Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs.