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Biography
Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa
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 Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa is
an established Australian artist.
Biography:
Australian Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies
page 171.
Lynette is a talented painter, using the aerial perspective,
she creates inspiring paintings, that boast the sheer
physical presence of the much contemporary work of art.
Lynette work is compelling to the viewer, the images seem to
move with the viewer’s eyes, as she is able to capture the
three-dimensional appearance
of depth and space.
Lynette Nampijinpa Granites
was born in 1945 at Mt Doreen cattle breeding Station about
55 km west of
Yuendumu
and an Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice
Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia.
When Lynette was a little
girl she grew up and was educated at the Baptist Mission in
Yuendumu.
Lynette married her first ‘promised’ husband and had two
children.
In 1973 with an extensive
Health training Lynette began working at the Yuendumu Health
Centre. Her Health worker job took her to Darwin, Alice
Springs and Adelaide where she attended workshops and
conferences.
Later Lynette Granites
married her second husband
Harry Jakamarra Nelson, a
well-known Australian artist,
a Warlpiri elder,
an
Aboriginal
activist,
a
Yuendumu
Council Chairman
and a
President.
In
the 80's Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa
commenced her
painting career for the
Warlukurlangu Artists
Aboriginal Corporation
and
since 1985
she has been
producing some of the finest works of art.
Warlukurlangu Artists
Aboriginal Corporation
in
Yuendumu
is an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located
producing gloriously coloured artworks supporting the
Aboriginal community of
Yuendumu.
Warlukurlangu Artists is one of the longest running and most
successful Aboriginal-owned art centre in Central Australia.
Lynette
paints her father’s and grandfather’s Jukurrpa Dreamings
which relate directly to her land, its features and the
plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were told
to her by her sisters, particularly her big sister.
Lynette
Granites
say:
“All my
sisters are gone now but they taught me to paint, they told
me my stories. What I like about painting is the Dreamings”.
With
Warlukurlangu Artists
Aboriginal Corporation
Lynette Granites work
has a national and
international profile and its art has been featured in
hundreds of exhibitions and publications in Australia and
around the world.
Warlukurlangu means
‘belonging to fire’ in the local language, Warlpiri, and is
named after a fire dreaming site west of Yuendumu.
Lynette
Granites Nampijinpa
creates
inspiring paintings,
her top-quality
artworks mesmerize
the viewer, the
images
seem to move with the viewer’s eye as
the artist is able to
captivate
an illusion of multi-dimensional space and depth.
Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa
masterworks
are
powerful, boasting the physical presence of the much
contemporary work of art.
Lynette Granites
work is
recognized for bold use
of color, attention to
intricate
details and
particularly
beautiful shades of colours.
Lynette
Granites
work
has a distinctive linear
fluidity
and
rare energy which is infectious to the viewer and
contains a compelling visual
and spiritual power.
Collections
Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa
work
is
represented in Australian and international collections:
National Museum
Warsaw Poland
Art Gallery of
New South Wales
National Gallery
of Victoria
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Spazio Pitti Arte, Florence Italy
Vlaams
Eurospeech,
the Nerherlands
Meerzigt Zoetermeer Art
Centre Rotterdam, the Nerherlands
Art and
Soul Gallery Nashville, USA
Tennessee USA, Portland Art Museum
Cooloola
Shire Public Gallery
many
private collections
France, Germany, Denmark.
AWARDS
2000
- the 5th Biennale de
Lyon France
Lynette Granites
pays particular attention to
details
her artworks are
skillfully painted with unrestrained beautiful colours.
Lynette
Granites
Nampijinpa
quality artworks are painted
with
intricate
shades
and subtle tones
seem to move with the viewer’s eyes.
In her top-quality artworks, Lynette
is
able to
capture the multi-dimensional depth and space.
Lynette Granites
work is
unique and
constantly evolving,
and yet characteristic to her
artistic style.
Lynette
is a skilful painter
she creates expressive artworks,
experimenting the style, palette,
composition, subject and details.
Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa
work tell the story of
the artist connection to her country.
Lynette
paints often
Pamapardu
Dreaming,
stories of
Flying Ants, Bush Seeds, and Water Dreamings using
her own creative depiction of the subject and the content with
contemporary
appearance.
Lynette Granites
paintings explore the unique
topography of her country,
featuring the
landscape, the plants and animals that are found there and
the creation myths that occurred in the Dreamtime.
These
stories are still very relevant to the artists today.
Flying Ant
Dreaming -
Pamapardu
Jukurrpa
Flying Ant Dreaming ‘Pamapardu’ is the
Warlpiri name for the flying ants or termites that build the
large anthills found throughout Warlpiri country.
‘Pamapardu’ are flying ants.
Flying Ant Dreaming (Pamapardu Jukurrpa) from
Warntungurru, west of Yuendumu country belongs to Nakamarra/Napurrurla
women and Jakamarra/Jupurrurla men.
Ants build Earth mounds (Mingkirri) that are
prolific in the area. When heavy rains come in summer the
Ants Earth mounds (Mingkirri) are flooded.
Ants (Pamapardu) grow wings (to
save the colony) and
fly out to seek new dry land and to build new
homes. Ants Queens fly to
new
dry mounds homes. When Ants finds new dry
land and built new homes they drop their wings.
When Ants drop their wings,
Ants fall to the ground, Aboriginal women easily collect
the Ants.
In this stage,
women cook Ants and Termites
lightly in coals. Cooked Ants and Termites
are nice and sweet and
Aboriginal people enjoy eating
them.
In contemporary Warlpiri paintings
traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa,
particular sites and other elements. When this Jukurrpa
story is painted, concentric circles are used to represent
the earth mounds (Mingkirri) and the rock-holes involved in
the story, including the central one at Wapurtali (Mt
Singleton). Dashes are often depicted around the circles to
represent the Ants (Pamapardu).
The flying
Ant is the winged stage of the termite, commonly viewed as a
destructive force however Watanuma of Flying Ants Dreaming
acknowledges the important role the insects play in the
ecology of country.
The painting depicts also the travels of a large group of
women to Pinari and Watanuma rockholes, north-west of the
Kintore Community. The women camped at these sites singing
the songs and performing the dances associated with the
area. Women
travel to Pinari and Watanuma rock-holes for survival.
Dreaming
The Jukurrpa is translated as the 'Dreaming' or
'Dreamtime' and exists in desert law as the creation period.
During the Jukurrpa, ancestral beings in both human and
animal form moved across the desert singing, marrying and
fighting – or tricking and helping one another
Jukurrpa
is a Central Australian Aboriginal term used to describe the
laws and protocols set by the Ancestral Beings who created
the Universe and the World.
Flying Ants Dreaming Pamapardu Jukurrpa is a very
significant Dreaming. Pampardu is the Aboriginal word of
Warlpiri
people in
Central
Australia for Flying ants and termites
(Pamapardu) that build large anthills earth mounds homes
called Mingkirri.
Pamapardu are widespread through Warlpiri country in central
Australia of the
Tanami
Desert.
The Flying Ant Dreaming painting depicts Pampardu Jukurrpa
from Wapurtali West of
Yuendumu.
Using traditional iconography of the Jukurrpa Lynette
Granites Nampijinpa creates modern painting of Pampardu
Dreaming.
The concentric circles represent Mingkirri earth homes and
Rock Holes implicated in the painting story in the central
one at
Mount
Singleton. Dashes are often depicted around the
circles to represent the Pamapardu ants.
Pampardu Flying Ants Dreaming depicts the airborne travels
of Ancestral Beings that travelled from the East through to
Anmatyerr
lands and then on to
Warlpiri
country.
Ancestral Beings landed upon solid ground for the last time
west of Yuendumu, and through travels created creeks before
retreating to a cave as his final resting place.
People sometimes use the word Dreaming in place of Jukurrpa
most commonly found in Arnhem Land.
Dreaming is an English word commonly used by Aboriginal and
non-Aboriginal people alike to describe Aboriginal cosmology
and the genesis of the World.
The Dreaming encompasses the ancestral narratives about the
supernatural and Ancestral Beings, and their epic deeds of
creation.
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Literature
Source
& FURTHER
REFERENCES
Australian Aboriginal Artist dictionary of
biographies
Kreczmanski, Janusz B and Birnberg, Margo (eds.):
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies:
Central Desert, Western Desert and Kimberley Region
JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004.
Lynette Granites
Nampijinpa Biography
is on
page 171 at
Aboriginal Artists dictionary of biographies
Central Desert,
Western Desert &
Kimberley Region.
A Biographical Dictionary by
Kreczmanski, Janusz B and
Birnberg, Margo (eds.):
(JB Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004)
Vivien Johnson, published by Craftsman House 1994
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
Aboriginal Artists: Dictionary of Biographies:
Central Desert, Western Desert & Kimberley Region JB
Publishing Australia, Marleston, 2004
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Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First
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