PADDY JAPALJARRI SIMS - MARLA JUKURRPA (ROCK WALLABY DREAMING)

 PADDY JAPALJARRI SIMS
MARLA JUKURRPA (ROCK WALLABY DREAMING),  2006
122 x 107 cm
synthetic polymer paint on belgian linen
 
PROVENANCE
Yuendumu, NT
Warlukurlangu Art Centre, N.TCoo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Sydney, NSWAccompanied by a Warlukurlangu certificate. 
 
STORY
Paddy has painted a Jukurrpa (Dreaming) of marla (rock wallaby) who came from Mowrungu, south-west of Yuendumu, and travelled north past Yinjirrimardi and Chilla Well and moving on north. The marla are represented by two ā€�vā€¯ shapes, the shape of the tracks they leave in the sand. Concentric circles show the water holes the marla stopped at, and wavy lines depict the journey they made. This Jukurrpa comes the country of which Paddy is custodian.
 
EXHIBITED
Re-Collected, May 2013, Coo-ee Art GalleryEN_TRANCE, February 2009, Coo-ee Art GalleryJune-Sep. 2012, 'Big Country: Australian Aboriginal Art Coast to Coast', Jeffrey Moose Gallery Seattle USA