Pirlinyanu, 2011
Artist: Julie Nangala Robinson
Region: Central Desert
Medium/Type: Painting
Size:
122 x 91 cm
(Artwork can be rotated)
Catalogue Number: 14188JR
Price: 3800.00
Curator’s note: This painting is more vibrant red than in the photo. Request close up photos and see actual colour on Facetime if you wish.
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 Western Australia border.
This rocky country with its significant waterholes and plentiful bush tucker is one of many significant locations for the Water Dreaming because if you know which rocks to move you always have access to fresh water in the deep natural occurring wells of Pirlinyanu. Without this knowledge one could imagine there was no water in this desert landscape.
Using an aerial perspective along with a more recently established and distinctive monochromatic palette, Julie’s current paintings have become 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 repeated overdotting.
Julie Nangala Robinson
Region: Yuendumu, NT
Julie is the traditional custodian of her country Pirlinyanu, a land of rocky outcrops and deep water springs. It is a water dreaming site (Ngapa Jukurrpa) near Mina Mina.