MELISSA NUNGARRAYI LARRY - YUMARI JUKURRPA (YUMARI DREAMING)

MELISSA NUNGARRAYI LARRY
YUMARI JUKURRPA (YUMARI DREAMING),  2008
76 x 61 cm
Synthetic Polymer Paint on Belgian Linen
 
REGION
Yuendumu, NT
 
PROVENANCE
Warlukurlangu Artists, NT
Cooee Art Leven, NSW 
 
STORY
The site for this dreaming is Yumari, a collection of rocks west of Kintore in the Gibson Desert.  Yumari is the site of a forbidden love union between a Japaljarri man and a Nangala woman. This dreaming was passed down to the artist by a Pintupi man. 

In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, associated sites and other elements and in this work concentric circles represent Warnirri (rock holes).
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
MELISSA NUNGARRAYI LARRY