Patsy Ross b. 1975
Yawyulyu (Women's Body Painting) by Patsy Ross, 2025
60 x 90 cm
23 5/8 x 35 3/8 inches
23 5/8 x 35 3/8 inches
acrylic on canvas
TIAA-PR202560
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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.
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.
