Family in Yalpirakinu
$1,650.00
Yalpirakinu is Adrian Jangala Robertson’s mother’s country. Adrian’s mother is the late Eunice Napangardi, a well-known painter herself. His artworks consistently refer to the desert mountains, ridges and trees which are part of Yalpirakinu. Using a restricted colour palette, Adrian’s brushwork is loaded with energy, drama and memories. In this painting Adrian has drawn from his memory to portray his family in Yalpirakinu.
Adrian Jangala Robertson was born at Papunya in 1962. He went to school in Papunya and remembers Geoff Bardon as a schoolteacher and working alongside the early Western Desert painters. Adrian’s fathers’ country travels from west of Walungurru through Karku at Nyirrpi to Warlurkurlangu at Yuendumu. His father, Jampitjinpa, lived at Mount Doreen close to Yuendumu and later worked at Papunya as a gardener and builder. Jampitjinpa was a brother to the late Darby Ross Jampitjinpa. Adrian joined Bindi Mwerre Anthurre Artists in 2002.
