Yinarupa Nangala – Country

$6,250.00

Yinarupa Nangala is a Pintupi woman who was born “bush” at Mukula, across the WA border in the region of today’s settlement of Kiwirrkurra. Yinarrupa was born about the early 1960s (there are no records of this) and is the daughter of one of Papunya Tula’s great artist, Anatjari Tjampitjinpa. She was a co-wife with, amongst others, Ningara Naparurrula of another Papunya Tula great, Yala Yala Gibbs. Thus she is also related by marriage into George Ward Tjungurrayi’s and Willy Tjungurrayi’s families.

Yinarpua started to paint in 1996 and for some time only gained moderate recognition for her works. It has only been in recent time that she has lept into the public eye, being recognized for her classic Pintupi style. She paints her traditional land where the women gather to conduct ceremonial business. The sacred designs she paints have an intuitive sense of space and rhythm and are associated with the rock hole site of Mukula. These places are also sites with much food, and the women gather the seeds of the native Acacia, grinding them into flour to make bread. Her paintings also commonly show rock holes, which are important water sources in the desert. During ancestral times a large group of women came from the west and stopped at this site to perform the ceremonies associated with the area.

Painted in 2016.