Gabriella Possum Nungarrayi, the daughter of the famous artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, has imprinted her mastery on the garden with a unique painted backdrop featuring her beautiful and representative indigenous work on a 20 metre-long wall.
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The work, which took approximately 40 hours to prepare, tells of the story of life represented through traditional indigenous dot paintings in colours inspired by the Central Australian desert.
Gabriella completed the valuable work in February, and it is now being transported to the United Kingdom in one of three shipping containers that set sail in March.
Grandmother’s Country - Bush Tucker Dreaming
'This painting depicts the artist's Grandmothers country near Mt. Allen, NT.
The seated women with ceremonial body paint designs are depicted by the "U" shapes throughout the work, there are men sitting around with spears, women gathering food, spinifex grass and many other illustrated descriptions of this area.
This painting provides an excellent overview of an important place to the artist that was obviously located close water with abundant bush foods.'
Gabriella Possum Nungarrayi
Included here are links for two scanned pages that discuss the common iconography used in Aboriginal art. The pages are from Jennifer Loureide Biddle’s book Breasts, Bodies, Canvas: Central desert art as experience, 2007, pages 32 - 33.
