Madeline Curley b. 1976
Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2026
60 x 90 cm
23 5/8 x 35 3/8 inches
23 5/8 x 35 3/8 inches
acrylic on linen
TIAA-MC202605
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Over the course of her career, Madeline has developed a fluid and sweeping style of dot painting to illustrate aspects of the famous Kungkarangkalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) story -...
Over the course of her career, Madeline has developed a fluid and sweeping style of dot painting to illustrate aspects of the famous Kungkarangkalpa Tjukurpa (Seven Sisters Dreaming) story - an incredibly significant songline that intersects the entire continent. ThisTjukurpa was passed down to Madeline by her father. Madeline paints a part of the story that takes place on her ancestral country, as the sisters travel across the expansive arid country, trying to escape from the pursuing man, Nyiru. The roundels on the canvas represent the waterholes and rockholes where the sisters camped, and the overlay of finely dotted winding lines are the paths walked by the women and the ever-changing topography that they pass through, guiding and protecting each other.
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