Ngapa Jukurrpaby Narelle Nangala Brown

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:Narelle Nangala Brown
Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
ID:651-18
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:30 x 30 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Narelle Nangala Brown was born in 1987 and comes from Yuendumu Community approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. She is the daughter of Veronica Napangardi Martin and Ernest Japanangka Brown and granddaughter of Peggy Nampijinpa Brown - a respected Warlpiri woman in the Yuendumu Community who received the Order of Australia Medal in 2007 for her work in a successful Petrol sniffing program.

As a young girl Narelle would often watch Peggy paint and listen to her stories. Narelle has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 2008 - a local Aboriginal owned and governed art centre based in Yuendumu. Narelle paintd her grandmothers Watiya-Warnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming) and her parents Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming). Initially Narelle's artworks consisted of using traditional iconography but over time she has developed an individualistic style using unrestricted colours, patterns and designs.

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