Rockholesby Edith Jackson Nampitjinpa

This artwork depicts rock-holes (as roundels). The wavy lines represent sandhills. Australian Aboriginal people have inimate knowledge of rock-holes. Women often surround themselves around sandhills for ceremonies.

Artist:Edith Jackson Nampitjinpa
Title:Rockholes
ID:EJN159
Medium:Acrylic on Belgian Linen
Size:50 x 20 cm
Region:Kintore, Western Desert

Artist

Edith Jackson Nampitjinpa is a Pintupi artist who lives in Kiwirrkura, Western Australia. She paints women’s ceremony and Tingari for her country using intensely dotted surfaces in ochre-inspired palettes, often with the concentric square form as a dominant motif. She paints Ngurrapulangu, a clay-pan site, west of the Kintore Community, where in mythological times a group of Tingari men camped as they travelled west, eventually passing through Umari and Wala Wala. Since events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature.

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