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Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa B.1938

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


If you love Art of impeccable provenance, the art you want is at Galeria Aniela
 

Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa has been painting for over 30 years since the 70´s, she is a highly respected senior woman and an established Australian Aboriginal artist, she assisted at the World Vision projects. Sabina is teaching young about flora and fauna and the ancient family knowledge of the country.

Sabina paintings speak about the ancient country Dreaming. Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa work is held in collections around the world including Artbank, Homes  a Court Collection,, Kelton Foundation USA, Hank Ebes, Araluen Arts Centre, Broken Hill Regional Gallery,Kerry Stokes.

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Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa

BUSH Onion Ceremony

Synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen Signed on reverse

Image size: 122 x 92 cm

Framed size: 162 x 132 cm
 

Price: $5,500  subject to change without a prior notice  Enquire

Provenance: Warumpi Arts

Warumpi Arts was established in 1994 by Papunya Community Council it was the first Aboriginal Community Art Gallery fully Owned, Directed and Operated by Aboriginal artists in Alice Springs.

Warumpi Arts was the main centre for paintings for Papunya artists, and maintained by Papunya Tula Artists until September 2004.

 

Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa Biography

Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa has been painting for over 30 years, she is a highly respected senior woman,d she assisted at the World Vision projects. 

Sabina paintings speak about the country, she is also teaching young about flora and fauna and the family knowledge of the country.

Sabina Brown Nampitjinpa is married to Dick Brown Tjapaltjarri  a recognized artist represented in Aboriginal Art - Art Gallery of South Australia.  

 

BUSH Onion Ceremony
This painting depicts women in their traditional role collecting Bush onion at Karrinyarra at Mt Wedge 70 km from Papunya, Central desert region of Australia.

The “U” shapes represent women along with their digging sticks. The concentric circles represent sacred sites.

The dotting represents body paint design the women wear during the ceremonies.

 Women hold ceremonies to honor the ancestral beings for plentiful and abundance of food and decorate their bodies with body paint and birds feathers.

 

COLLECTIONS

Art Bank Sydney

Kelton Foundation USA

Hank Ebes Collection

Araluen Arts Centre NT

Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery

Kelton Foundation California

Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth

 

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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