Pirlinyanu by Julie Nangala Robinson, Size 30x25cm Cat 11166JR

This small delicate work is an aerial perspective of an important Water Dreaming site which is associated with her father’s traditional country of Pirlinyanu , a rocky outcrop in the Tanami Desert, west of Yuendumu and towards the WA border.

This lovely painting hangs beautifully with its sister painting Catalogue 11165JR.

Winner of the 2023 Telstra Aboriginal Art Award in Best Painting Category , Julie’s current paintings are works of extraordinary optical brilliance as she alternates the size of dots throughout her work as well as building up specific shapes or reference points often by repeating dotting.

Julie depicts her Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming), which is associated with her father’s traditional country of Pirlinyanu , a rocky outcrop in the Tanami Desert, west of Yuendumu and towards the WA border.

Julie was awarded the prestigious Telstra Aboriginal Art Award Best Painting category in August 2023.

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.