Ngapa Jukurrpaby Lizzie Nungarrayi Spencer

The site depicted in this painting in Pirlinyarnu. The owners of this Dreaming are the Nangala and Nampijinpa women and the Jangala and Jampijinpa men. The story tells of two Jangala men, rainmakers who sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm. The Kirrkarlangji carried the storm further west. The two storms travelled across the country from Karlipirnpa, a ceremonial site for water Dreaming. Along the way the storms passed through important places and before long became to heavy for the falcon to carry. It dropped the water at Pirlinyarnu where it formed an enormous clay-pan. A water soakage exists in this place today. Whenever it rains, hundreds of bush ducks still flock to Pirlinyarnu.

Artist:Lizzie Nungarrayi Spencer
Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
ID:2381-18NY
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:30 x 30 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Lizzie Nungarrayi Spencer comes from Yuendumu Community approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. Lizzie is a Warlpiri woman and artist who works with Warlukurlangu Artists, a local Aboriginal governed art centre based in Yuendumu Community. Lizzie's artworks depict her Dreaming - Ngapa Jukurrpa or Water Dreaming and shows the Dreaming track which runs through Pirlinyarnu.

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