Artist: Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi

Language: Luritja / Ammatyerre

Title: Grandmother’s Country

Medium: Acrylic on Linen

Size: 32 x 60”

COA included

 Description:
Earthy colors in rust, gold, orage, white, reds and pinksThis painting is gorgeous!! I’ve never seen another one like it.

 Gabriellais represented in a number of commercial galleries and her works form part of many collections, which include: The Art Gallery of South Australia, National Gallery of Australia, Flinders University Art Museum, Museum Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, USA.

This painting offers a symbolic depiction of an Anmatyarre area in the Tanami Desert known as Yuelamu, which is regarded as belonging to the artist`s ancestral grandmother, who came to this area during the Dreamtime and passed on her country and tribal way of life to her female descendants, who are represented as symbolic U-shapes and depicted through human foot prints, or tracks. These tracks also double to represent Yuelamu`s ancestral grandmother and lend to the idea of her walking barefooted over her desert country, which is the subject of this work.