Colleen Wallace Nungari

Colin Wallace Nungari was born c.1970. Colleen started painting in the early 1990's with the encouragement of her mother Kathleen Wallace, a well known Keringke artist from Santa Teresa in central Australia.

Colleen Wallace Nungari is one of our most popular artists at Central Art- Aboriginal Art Store. Her Yam Dreaming links through to the country of Ada Bird Petyarre, a well renowned artist from Mulga Bore, Utopia. Kenny Tilmouth Panangka (grandfather) has given her the rights to paint Yam Dreaming, however Colleen is known of the precise dot design and vibrant usage of colour in her Dreamtime Sisters series. Eastern Arrernte Aboriginal call the spirits 'Irrernte-arenye'. It is their role to guard special areas of land in particular sacred sites.

Colleen’s work also include ceremonial body paint designs and more detailed designs associated to the Bush Yam, the vine and its flower, which only grows in ‘green times’ (during rain).

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