Goanna Love Storyby Debra Nangala McDonald

This painting depicts the Goanna Love Story and displays traditional iconography and symbols. The small concentric circle is the hole in the sandbank where the goanna lives. The large circle depicts the contours of the sandhill around the goanna burrow. Designs on either side represent the goanna tracks as he searches to find a wife. The design relates to the Goanna Spirit of the Dreamtime as they travel their country in search of love.

Artist:Debra Nangala McDonald
Title:Goanna Love Story
ID:17102736
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:50 x 86 cm
Region:Papunya, Central Australia

Artist

Debra Nangala McDonald was born in 1969 and comes from Papunya Community, several hours from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She is a Pintupi Artist and comes from a family of fellow artists. This family of artists inherits a strong line of stories that relate to their own family story and the travels through the Gibson Desert. Debra’s paintings come from her grandfather’s lineage as she keeps the ancient stories alive as part of the new generation of artists working in the Pintupi tradition.

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