KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON - MINA MINA
KITTY NAPANANGKA SIMON
MINA MINA, 2013
120 x 60cm
synthetic polymer paint on linen
PROVENANCE
Lajamanu, NT
Warnayaka Art Centre, N.TCoo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
STORY
Mina mina is near Lake Mackay. It's main dreaming story is the karrpanu, the digging stick, famously recorded in the Kanakurlangu clan group dreamingsongline. Warlpiri call that songline, yupunju. The women travelled eastward into Anmatyerre tribe lands in the Jukurrpa, by being, the sky and earth, night and day women created or gave birth to almost everything bringing them into existence. From raining clouds, waterholes, waterways, everything was danced and sung into existence. Then everything was left to be dug up with the karrpanu so one could feed on the knowledge about everything within the Warlpiri homelands. The ultimate karrpanu is the pointer stars near the Southern Cross stars. When the pointer star touches down in the horizon then the Warlpiri learning cycle begins again.
EXHIBITED
Solo exhibition- Kitty Napanangka Simon ā€�Mina Minaā€™, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney Nov 9-30 2013Marking Memories, March 2016, Coo-ee Art GallerySummer Sun Upstairs, December 2015, Coo-ee Art Gallery