CHRISTINE NAKAMARRA YUKENBARI - WINPURPURLA

 CHRISTINE NAKAMARRA YUKENBARI
WINPURPURLA,  2010
120 x 180 cm
synthetic polymer paint on linen
 
PROVENANCE
Balgo Hills, WA
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Cat No. 632/10Alcaston Gallery, Vic, Cat No. AK16651Private Collection, Qld 
 
STORY
This is the largest and most accomplished painting recorded in this artist's ouevre. Christine Yukenbarri is the daughter of the renowned Balgo Hill's painters Lucy Yukenbarri and Helicopter Joe Tjungurrayi. She paints in the kinti-kinti (close-close) style of dotting pioneered by her mother. In this large canvas Christine has painted her mother's country south of Balgo, in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is named Winpurpurla after the soakwater depicted as the central circle in the painting. Winpurpurla is a permanent waterhole  or "living water" place. Women often travel to Winpurpurla to collect a variety of seeds including lukarrari which is ground to make damper and kumpupatja (bush tomato). The definite lines in the painting represent the tali (sandhills) that dominate this country.'
 
EXHIBITED
Pages From the Atlas, April 2022, Cooee Art Redfern