Lukarrara Jukurrpaby Connie Nakamarra Fisher

Lukarrara Jukurrpa means Desert Fringe-Rush Seed Dreaming. This Dreaming belongs to the Nakamarra and Napurrurla women and the Jakamarra and Japurrurla men. The Dreaming is associated with a place called Jaralypari, north of Yuendumu Community in Central Australia. Lukarrara is a grass with edible seeds. The seeds are ground down to make a flour, water is added and used to make damper cakes to be cooked and eaten. In traditional Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is often used to depict the story of women collecting and making the flour at Jaralypari. In this small painting a contemporary depiction is used showing the Lukarrara grass with its seeds.

Artist:Connie Nakamarra Fisher
Title:Lukarrara Jukurrpa
ID:5726-16
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:30 x 30 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Connie Nakamarra Fisher was born in 1954 at Mount Denison, a station 332 kms north-west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. As a young girl her family relocated to Yuendumu Community, approximately 300km from Alice Springs. Connie is the daughter of Maggie Napanangka White, a well-known artist who worked with Warlukurlangu Artists from 1986-1997. Connie has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists, a local Aboriginal art centre based in Yuendumu since 1987. She paints her parents Dreamings. From her mother she paints Karnta Jukurrpa or Women's Dreaming and Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming. From her father she paints Jardiwampa Jukurrpa (Snake Dreaming) and Lukarrara Jukurrpa (Desert Fringe-Rush Seed Dreaming.

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