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Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm
  • Aboriginal Art by Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm - ART ARK®
  • Aboriginal Art by Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm - ART ARK®
  • Aboriginal Art by Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm - ART ARK®

Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton, Watiya-warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming), 40x40cm

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  • Aboriginal Artist - Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton
  • Community - Yuendumu  
  • Aboriginal Art Centre - Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation  
  • Catalogue number - 3987/22
  • Materials - Acrylic paint on pre-stretched canvas
  • Size(cm) - H40 W40 D3.5  
  • Postage variants - Artwork posted stretched and ready to hang
  • Orientation - Painted from all sides and OK to hang as wished

This painting tells the story of a Jangala ‘watiya-warnu’ (Acacia tenuissima) ancestor who travelled south from a small hill called Ngurlupurranyangu to Yamunturrngu (Mount Liebig). As he travelled he picked the ‘watiya-warnu’ seeds and placed them in ‘parrajas’ (food carriers), one of which he carried on his head. Watiya-warnu is a seed bearing tree that grows in open spinifex or mulga country. When people returned to their camp after collecting the seeds they would make large windbreaks for shelter and winnow the seed in the late afternoon. Immature ‘watiya-warnu’ seed is ground into a paste and can be used to treat upset stomachs. The associated ‘watiya-warnu’ ceremony involves the preparation of a large ground painting. This Jukurrpa belongs to Nampijinpa/Nangala women and Jampijinpa/Jangala men. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements. In paintings of this Dreaming ‘U’ shapes are often depicting women collecting the ‘watiya-warnu’ seeds. Oval shapes represent the ‘parrajas’ where they carry the seeds and strait lines beside them frequently portrait digging sticks.

Cherina Nampijinpa Singleton was born in 1986 in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She is the daughter of Corinne and Patrick Singleton and has one brother Aaron. She is also the grand-daughter of Helen Nampijinpa Robertson, a well-known artist who paints with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation. Cherina attended the local school in Yuendumu before moving to Alice Spring to attend Yirara College, an Aboriginal Boarding College. After she finished schooling she returned to Yuendumu and shortly after began painting. She has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2001. She paints her father’s Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings which relate directly to her land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down to her by her father and his father’s father before him for millennia. Cherina uses traditional designs and icons but with an unrestricted palette, ”I love working with colour”, to depict her traditional Jukurrpa. Cherina is married and has three children, two girls and one boy. When she is not busy looking after her husband and children and when she is not painting she likes to go hunting for goanna.

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