Sharon Porter Napangardi b. 1976
My Grandmother's Country by Sharon Porter Napangardi, 2024
82 x 56 cm
32 1/4 x 22 inches
32 1/4 x 22 inches
acrylic on Belgian linen
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Sharon paints her grandmother Katjarra Butler's country, the tali (sandhill) country east of Kiwirrkurra – the rockholes and soakage sites between the dunes, and the ceremonial sites where native medicinal...
Sharon paints her
grandmother Katjarra Butler's country, the tali (sandhill)
country east of Kiwirrkurra – the rockholes and soakage sites between the dunes,
and the ceremonial sites where native medicinal botanicals and bush tucker are
gathered. She paints her grandmother's Dreaming story, where around this particular
place, all the minyma (women) were sitting down beside a rockhole, drinking
water from it and eating berries and bush tucker. They stayed sitting so long
that they became the stones that now rest in this sacred place.
grandmother Katjarra Butler's country, the tali (sandhill)
country east of Kiwirrkurra – the rockholes and soakage sites between the dunes,
and the ceremonial sites where native medicinal botanicals and bush tucker are
gathered. She paints her grandmother's Dreaming story, where around this particular
place, all the minyma (women) were sitting down beside a rockhole, drinking
water from it and eating berries and bush tucker. They stayed sitting so long
that they became the stones that now rest in this sacred place.
