Judy Napangardi Dixon, Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-rush Seed Dreaming), 50x40cm

• Aboriginal Artist - Judy Napangardi Dixon
• Community - Yuendumu  
• Aboriginal Art Centre - Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation
• Catalogue number - 264/23
• Materials - Acrylic paint on pre-stretched canvas
• Size(cm) - H50 W40 D3.5 
• Postage variants - Artwork posted stretched and ready to hang
• Orientation - Painted from all sides and OK to hang as wished

This Jukurrpa belongs to women of the Nakamarra/Napurrurla subsections and to Jakamarra/Jupurrurla men. This Dreaming is associated with a place called Jaralypari, north of Yuendumu. Lukarrara (desert fringe-rush [Fimbristylis oxystachya & Fimbristylis eremophila]) is a grass with an edible seed. The seeds are traditionally ground on a large stone (‘ngatinyanu’) with a smaller stone (‘ngalikirri’) to make flour. This flour is mixed with water (‘ngapa’) to make damper cakes which are cooked and eaten. In Warlpiri traditional paintings iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements. Large concentric circles often represent the site of Jaralypari and also the seed bearing grass Lukurrara. ‘U’ shapes can depict the Karnta (women) collecting ‘lukarrara’ and straight lines are frequently used to portray seeds that fall down to the ground and are also collected by women using their ‘parrajas’ (wooden food carriers) and ‘karlangu’ (digging sticks).

Judy Napangardi Dixon was born in Mount Denison, 332 km north-west of Alice Springs. When she was little her parents would take her out bush showing her sites and teaching her the traditional ways of her country. Judy went to school at Willowra for a short time and when a young adult settled down in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km northwest of Alice Springs in NT of Australia, where she married. She is now a widow and not having any children she loves to look after her two nieces, Molita and Hayley. She has a Grandmother living in Alice Springs. Her country is Yuelamu, an area around Yuendumu. Judy has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2004. She learnt to paint from her mother, Lucy Napurrurla Dixon, who has been painting with the Art Centre since 1991. Lucy likes to paint Jukarrarra Jukurrpa (Native Seed Dreaming), her grandfather’s Jukurrpa, but she also paints Karnta Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming) and Janmarda Jukurrpa (Bush Onion Dreaming). Judy loves to paint and is working hard to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.

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