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Nancy Ross Nungurrayi 1935-2010

An ancient culture of 60 thousand years gave the World its most exciting Contemporary Art

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is a renowned Australian artist. Based an ancient traditions, Nancy Ross created some of the most dynamic and exciting Contemporary Indigenous Australian Art.

Nancy artworks are exhibited around the world and held in major collections including National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, Museum Art Gallery of  Northern Territory, Darwin, Artbank, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Rebecca Hossack, London, Redot Fine Art Stage, Singapore, Michael Reid, Berlin, Rebecca Hossack, New York, Kelton Foundation USA

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi 1935-2010

NR200112  Dream Time Tjukurrpa (2006) - the story
 Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen
Size: 155 cm x 125 cm

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Nancy Nungurrayi (1935-2010)
Dream Time Tjukurrpa (2006) NR200113
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
Size: 152 cm x 48 cm

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Nancy Nungurrayi (1935-2010)
Dream Time Tjukurrpa (2006) NR200114
Synthetic polymer paint on linen
 Size: 152 cm x 48 cm

Price:   Enquire

 the story - The concentric circles signify locations used for Aboriginal ceremonies. The parallel lines that connect these circles are ancestral paths called "song lines" created by the mythical ancestors (Tingari) of the Aborigines. The main site is the Rockhole of "Marrapinti also painted by Nancy sister Naata Nungurrayi.

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi (1935-2010) Biography

the story  

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi is an important international modern abstract artist born around 1935 and she died 2010.  

Nancy Ross Nungurrayi has created some of the most exciting form of contemporary Australian Indigenous art, based on an ancient tradition of 60 thousands years.

Nancy work is dynamic and in high demand in the World Art Market keenly sought-after by international buyers. Nancy paintings are exhibited internationally and Australia wide.

Nancy Nungurrayi work is represented in major corporate and public collections throughout the world including Rebecca Hossack, London, Redot Fine Art Stage, Singapore, Michael Reid, Berlin, Germany, Rebecca Hossack, New York, Kelton Foundation USA, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Museum Art Gallery of  Northern Territory, Darwin, Artbank, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Homes a Court Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia.

About Nancy Nungurrayi paintings

THE STORY

Nancy Ross designs are complex with great attention to details, she creates unique artworks that have the physical presence of the much contemporary ART.

The concentric circles signify locations used for Aboriginal ceremonies. The parallel lines that connect these circles are ancestral paths called "song lines" created by the mythical ancestors (Tingari) of the Aborigines. The main site is the Rockhole of "Marrapinti also painted by Nancy sister Naata Nungurrayi.

Nancy depict the dreaming sites or “Tjukurrpa Dreaming” relating the traditional homeland of the Kintore country that include Tali (Sand Hills) and Puli (rocky hills) painted as a series of curved linear patterns.

In the Tjukurrpa, the Dreaming, the ancestors created the world and laid down the laws for people’s behaviour. Tjukurrpa refers to origins and powers embodied in country, places, objects, songs and stories. It is a way of seeing and understanding the world and connects people to country and to each other through shared social and knowledge networks.

Many Nancy Ross Nungurrayi paintings depict women grinding 'wangunu', grass seeds used to make traditional damper. Nancy designs are associated with the Rock-Hole site of "Marrapinti", to the west of the Kiwirrkura Community.

The main site known as “Marrapinti” is the site were women gathered for ceremony during the "Time of Creation" - Dream-Time "Tjukurrpa".

Nancy designs represent various aspects of the landscape such as Sand-dunes and Rock escarpments known as (Tali) and (Puli). Nancy paints “Karrku” story (refers to red ochre).

The concentric circles signify the locations used for ceremonies. The parallel lines that connect each of these sites are 'song' lines established during ancestral activities that are used during the movement from one site to the next and provide evidence of the presence of ancestral beings.

The arcs represent Sand-Hills surrounding the site. The women are depicted as “U” shapes and the background colours and designs represent is the landscape of Sand-Dunes and Rock escarpments.

Apart from the symbols used to represent the women and their activities. Women also gathered “kumparapara” native tomato, the dried fruit was ground to paste and baked in hot coals.

Nancy’s stories include; “Mantarrkurra”, “Tunitjarra”- kunkga tjuta or “many women”, “Marrapinti” – women’s business. “Mamuttjulku” – Nancy’s (Tjapaltjarri) father’s site. Also she paints “Mantjintjalkara” area located in the Karrku area and “Wirunya” story about a ceremonial skirt worn by women.

Marrapinti Dreaming

A large group of senior women camped at this rock hole making the nose-bones, also known as Marrapinti, which are worn through a hole in the nose-web. These nose-bones were originally won by both men and women but are now only worn by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.

The nose-bones are known as "Marrapinti" after the location, and they are a part of one of the most important Aboriginal ceremonial rites.

The 'nose-bone ceremony' marks an Aboriginal boy's transition to man-hood. The ritual begins with the painting of sacred symbols on the body, followed by piercing the septum. The women later travelled east passing through the Kiwirrkura area.

Homes a Court Collection

Nancy Nungurrayi, Alice Springs 2006

 

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. 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 Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project, 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody A. 1990 Utopia, a picture Story, 88 Silk Batiks from the Robert Homes a Court Gallery and gallery Collection, Heytesbury Holdings LTD Perth NATSIVAD database, Latz, P. 1995, Bushfires & Bushtucker, IAD Press, Alice Springs Brody, A. 1989 Utopia women’s Paintings: the First Works on Canvas, A summer Project 1988-89 exhib. Cat. Heytesbury Holdings, Perth Brody Amadio, N. und Kimber, R., Wildbird Dreaming. Aboriginal Art from the Central Deserts of Australia, Greenhouse Publ., Melbourne 1988; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1990, Ausst. Kat.; Australian Aboriginal Art from the Collection of Donald Kahn. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami (Hrsg.), 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Droombeelden - Tjukurrpa. Groninger Museum (Hrsg.), Groningen 1995, Ausst. Kat.; Isaacs, J., Australia´s Living Heritage. Arts of the Dreaming, Lansdowne Press, Sydney 1984; Isaacs, J., Australian Aboriginal Paintings. Lansdowne, Sydney 1989, ISBN 186302011X; Johnson, V., Aboriginal Artists of the Western Desert. A Biographical Dictionary, Craftsman House, East Roseville 1994, ISBN 9768097817; Modern Art - Ancient Icon. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), o.O. 1992, ISBN 0646080520; Nangara. The Australian Aboriginal Art Exhibition from the Ebes Collection. The Aboriginal Gallery of Dreamings (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat.; Stourton, P. Corbally, Songlines and Dreamings. Lund Humphries Publ., London 1996, ISBN 0853316910; The Painted Dream. Contemporary Aboriginal Paintings. Johnson, V. (Hrsg.), Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland 1991, Ausst. Kat.; Tjinytjilpa. The Dotted Design. Aboriginal Art Galleries of Australia (Hrsg.), Melbourne 1998, Ausst. Kat.; Traumzeit - Tjukurrpa. Kunst der Aborigines der Western Desert. Die Donald Kahn-Sammlung, Danzker, J.B. (Hrsg.), Prestel, München und New York 1994, Ausst. Kat.; Voices of the Earth. Paintings, Photography and Sculpture from Aboriginal Australia. Gabrielle Pizzi (Hrsg.), Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne 1996, Ausst. Kat., ISBN 0646288954.

 

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