Ningura Napurrula, Photo credit info unavailable

This massive, powerful painting by one of Australia's top senior Aboriginal women painters focuses on the travels of her female ancestors and the sacred sites they passed in the early Dreamtime. Her dreaming includes "Wirrulnga", a rockhole site east of the Kiwirrkurra community in Western Australia where the Napaltjarri and Naparrula women go to give birth, which is forbiden to men.

USD $20000

Ningura Napurrula is among Australia's top senior Aboriginal women painters. She was married to Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, one of the greatest of the original Pintupi painters who walked into Papunya. Her work is characterized by thick layers of acrylic paint, dramatic linear design and powerful contrasting color fields.