Patsy Ross b. 1975
Women's Body Painting (Yawulyu) by Patsy Ross, 2022
75 x 142 cm
29 1/2 x 55 7/8 inches
29 1/2 x 55 7/8 inches
acrylic on canvas
TIAA-PR202563
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Patsy paints various aspects of women’s business, like collecting bush seeds and other tucker, the gathering and preparation of bush medicine, and designs associated with Yawulyu - Warlpiri women's ceremony,...
Patsy paints various aspects of women’s business, like collecting bush seeds and other tucker, the gathering and preparation of bush medicine, and designs associated with Yawulyu - Warlpiri women's ceremony, particularly relating to women's body paint designs. Yawulyu is a foundational pillar of culture and spiritual knowledge that encompasses a vast intersecting network of place, story, song, dance, and ritual performance. Ceremonies sometimes focus on a particular place or part of country, or on a certain story or collection of stories, such as the travels and actions of certain ancestral beings. Patsy is a woman of the Napaltjarri ‘skin’, according to the complex kinship systems of Aboriginal people, and is custodian to the Ngatjirri Jukurrpa, Budgerigar Dreaming. It is said that ngatjirri presides over the acquisition of spiritual knowledge.
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