Pirlinyanu (2009) diptych by Julie Nangala Robertson Cat 13907JR and 13908JR 31x61cm each panel

Measuring 61x62cm overall (each panel 61x31cm) this beautiful diptych can be hung either on the vertical or horizontal as it is a landscape viewed from an aerial perspective.

This is a significant Ngapa Tjukurra (Water Dreaming) site called Pirlinyanu, located in the Tanami Desert not far from Nyrripi, an outstation west of Yuendumu and north west of Alice Springs and part of the song cycle connecting other important water dreaming sites owned by those of the Nangala/Nampijinpa and Jangala/Jampijinpa language groups.

The eldest of the five daughters of Dorothy Napangardi Robinson has recently changed the spelling of her surname to Robertson, feeling that her father, Windy, had misspelt it as Julie's other relatives in Yuendumu are all Robertson. Windy had two wives, Rene Robinson and Dorothy Robinson.