Women's Dreaming by Nancy Ross Nungurrayi, 122x61cm 6601NN

Women's Dreaming by Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is a complex and joyful work that uses symbols to represent women and their activities. The painting also depicts women gathering "kumparapara," a native tomato, which they ground into a paste and baked in hot coals.

Nancy's subject matter often includes body paint designs applied to women's breasts during ceremonies. Her work is renowned for its beautiful fluidity and gestural quality.

Nancy Nungurrayi, a highly respected Western Desert artist, was born in 1935. Until the assimilation period in the mid-to-late '60s, she lived a traditional lifestyle northwest of Kintore with her sister Naata Nungurrayi and extended family at Maya, where she was born, and later at Wala Wala, west of the Kiwirrkura Community.