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Yvonne Nangala Gallagher, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu, 40x40cm
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Aboriginal Art by Yvonne Nangala Gallagher, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu, 40x40cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Yvonne Nangala Gallagher, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu, 40x40cm - ART ARK®
Aboriginal Art by Yvonne Nangala Gallagher, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu, 40x40cm - ART ARK®

Yvonne Nangala Gallagher, Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) - Pirlinyarnu, 40x40cm

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  • Aboriginal Artist - Yvonne Nangala Gallagher
  • Community - Yuendumu
  • Aboriginal Art Centre - Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation  
  • Catalogue number - 2921/22
  • Materials - Acrylic 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

The site depicted in this painting is Pirlinyarnu (Mt. Farewell), about 165 km west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. The ‘kirda’ (owners) for the water Dreaming site at Pirlinyarnu are Nangala/Nampijinpa women and Jangala/Jampijinpa men.

Two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm from Wapurtali at Mirawarri. A ‘kirrkarlanji’ (brown falcon [Falco berigora]) carried the storm further west from Mirawarri. The two storms travelled across the country from Karlipirnpa, a ceremonial site for the water Dreaming near Kintore that is owned by members of the Napaljarri/Japaljarri and Napanangka/Japanangka subsections. Along the way the storms passed through Juntiparnta, a site that is owned by Jampijinpa men. The storm eventually became too heavy for the falcon. It dropped the water at Pirlinyarnu, where it formed an enormous ‘maluri’ (claypan). A ‘mulju’ (soakage) exists in this place today. Whenever it rains today, hundreds of ‘ngapangarlpa’ (bush ducks) still flock to Pirlinyarnu.

In contemporary Warlpiri paintings, traditional iconography is used to represent the ‘Jukurrpa’ (Dreaming), associated sites, and other elements. In many paintings of this Dreaming, short dashes are often used to represent ‘mangkurdu’ (cumulus & stratocumulus clouds), and longer, flowing lines represent ‘ngawarra’ (flood waters). Small circles are used to depict ‘mulju’ (soakages) and river beds.

Yvonne Nangala Gallagher was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She grew up in Yuendumu and attended the local high school. She is the daughter of Coral Napangardi Gallagher, an active and highly respected senior woman in the Yuendumu community. Yvonne is married and has three children so most of her time is spent looking after her young kids. She has been painting with the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2000, depicting her father’s Jukurrpa stories that have been passed down to her from her father and his father’s father before him for millennia. These stories relate directly to her traditional country. She has also worked with the Yuendumu Old People's program that delivers meals to elderly people in the community and sometimes works with the local childcare. She also occasionally goes out hunting for traditional foods in the country around Yuendumu.