May Mayiwalku (May Wokka) Chapman Australian, Manyjilyjarra , b. 1940
May Mayiwalku (May Wokka) Chapman Australian, Manyjilyjarra , b. 1940
Ngurra (Home Country, Camp), 2020
45.5 x 182 cm
21-231
This painting depicts Mayiwalku’s ngurra (home Country, camp); the land she walked as a young child. Her Country, the Manyjilyjarra region, is located within the central Great Sandy Desert of...
This painting depicts Mayiwalku’s ngurra (home Country, camp); the land she walked as a young child. Her Country, the Manyjilyjarra region, is located within the central Great Sandy Desert of northwest Western Australia. Features of the landscape are here portrayed aerially with geographical familiarity, including tali (sandhills), warta (vegetation), and the many life sustaining water sources known intimately through both real life experience and the recounting of jukurrpa (dreamtime) narratives.
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