Title
Wirrul, from the suite Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya - same stories, a new way
2009
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Walungurru (Kintore)
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 2009
- Media category
- Materials used
- colour aquatint on Hahnemühle rag paper
- Edition
- 1/40
- Dimensions
- 33.0 x 25.0 cm platemark; 55.0 x 45.0 cm sheet
- Signature & date
Signed l.r. beneath platemark with artist's mark, pencil "X". Not dated.
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Aboriginal Art Collection Benefactors 2011
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 421.2011.7
- Copyright
- © Ningura Napurrula. Licensed by Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd
- Artist information
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Ningura Napurrula
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About
In addition to showcasing the quality of Papunya Tula Artists as a whole, this suite of etchings emphasises the strength of each individual artist as they successfully translate their Tjukurrpa to the new medium of printmaking. Far from being a mere copy of their paintings in a different scale and medium each artists adapts their visual language to this new process with apparent ease, resulting in bold, confident works that are extraordinary in themselves, and when combined as a suite, are truly amazing.
The art centre documentation for this work states:
This etching depicts designs associated with Wirrulnga, a rockhole site in a small rocky outcrop east of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia. In ancestral times a group of women of the Napaltjarri and Napurrula kinship subsections camped at this site, after travelling from the rockhole site of Ngaminya further west. The women are represented in the etching by the two arc shapes beside the roundel.
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Places
Where the work was made
Walungurru (Kintore)
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Papunya Tula works on paper, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Dec 2012–24 Mar 2013