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Ngayaku Ngurra
$3,700.00
All the ladies, kungka pirni, all the young ladies. Sitting down, making Kampurrampa (bush berries), Wangurnu (grain), eating lots of bush foods. Sitting next to those rockholes. You been see.
Ngayulu palyanyi tali, puli, munu kapi kulupa kutjarra. I paint the sandhills, hills, rocks and the two little rockholes there, not big ones, little ones.
This painting depicts Mary Gibson’s country, at a sacred site known as the home of the Tingarri beings. Mary was born bush way at Kurluwarri, west of this sacred site, but this place is Mary’s country, her home. It is where as a child she lived in the bush with her family, walking huge distances across the desert. Mary’s in-depth knowledge of the sand hills, clay pans and rock holes of her country are represented with bold lines and detailed dot work in her paintings.
Mary talks of many years travelling throughout the western desert region, including regular trips to Tjarlirli Rockhole years before Tjukurla community was established nearby. She lived in Tjukurla when it was first established as an outstation from Kaltukatjara (Docker River) in 1989 and remembers the building of what is now Tjukurla community. She was one of the first artists painting at Tjarlirli Art when it was established in 2006. Mary now spends her time between Tjukurla and Kaltukatjara and is a central figure at the art centres in both communities.
