MAYWOKKA (MAYIWALKU) CHAPMAN - NGURRA (HOME COUNTRY, CAMP)
MAYWOKKA (MAYIWALKU) CHAPMAN
NGURRA (HOME COUNTRY, CAMP), 2022
Acrylic on Canvas
75.5 x 75 cm
REGION
Pilbara, WA
PROVENANCE
Spinifex Hill Studio, WA, Cat No; 22-498
STORY
This painting depicts Mayiwalku’s ngurra (home Country, camp); the land she walked as a young child. Her Country, the Manyjilyjarra region, is located within the central Great Sandy Desert of northwest Western Australia. Features of the landscape are here portrayed aerially with geographical familiarity, including tali (sandhills), warta (vegetation), and the many life sustaining water sources known intimately through both real life experience and the recounting of jukurrpa (dreamtime) narratives.
















