Seven Sisters: Lennard Walker, Ngalpingka Simms, Tracey Simms, Angelina Woods & Kathleen Donnegan.
Past exhibition
Ngalpingka Simms Australian, Ngaanyatjarra, b. 1945
Wayilyul
Acrylic on linen
137 x 90 cm
834879
Ngalpingka has painted Wayiyul, country associated with the Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa (Seven Sister's creation story). This country is close to Karilywara (Patjarr) in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia and...
Ngalpingka has painted Wayiyul, country associated with the Minyma Tjuta Tjukurpa (Seven Sister's creation story). This country is close to Karilywara (Patjarr) in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of Western Australia and is where Ngalpingka was born and grew up living a traditional nomadic life with her family. She knows this country intimately, in both a physical and spiritual sense. Her knowledge of the country extends to the ancestral beings that created this landscape. Wayiyul is a Kungkarangkalpa (Seven Sister's) area which is a powerful and sacred Western Desert story pertaining to many woman’s groups. The sisters camped at Wayiyul, (represented by the semicircular motifs in the painting) and were being followed by Nyiiru, a lustful old man with metamorphic powers, who was trying to take the eldest sister as his wife. He had been stalking them, camping some distance from where they stopped and was hiding behind his windbreak, poking his head over to take a look. The women were disturbed by his constant pursuing of them and quickly took off to camp away from him. They travelled to (roundels are the sites) Karilywara, Miputjara, Tikar , Yalarra and Tatja. At one point they came to a large tjintjira (a clay pan and swampy area).