Women's Ceremonyby Margaret Brown Nangala

This small square artwork depicts the importance of women's ceremony and sacred places. The dotted lines leading to the centre concentric circle depicts the Dreaming and song lines as well as the dancing tracks which are followed to begin ceremonies. The centre of the artwork features the sacred site or ceremonial site where women will perform their spiritual and cultural obligations. The artwork uses traditional colours which are created using ochre rocks ground down into a paste, this is used to decorate the upper body for ceremonies.

Artist:Margaret Brown Nangala
Title:Women's Ceremony
ID:MNB22
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:30 x 30 cm
Region:Kiwirrkurra, Western Desert

Artist

Margaret Brown Nangala was born in 1968 and comes from Kiwirrkurra Community in the Western Desert of Central Australia. Margaret has worked with several galleries but has worked closely with Ikuntji Art Centre which is located within the spectacular West McDonnell Ranges approximately 230km from Alice Springs.

Margaret typically paints women’s ceremonies within her artworks; however she also depicts the Tingari Cycle which shares the Dreaming story of a group of ancestral beings that emerged from the earth during the time of the creation. This is referred to as the Tjukurrpa. Her women’s ceremony artworks depict ceremonial sites near her homelands of Kiwirrkurra. This countryside is well known for its sand hill country. The Tingari ancestral women crossed this particular country as they made their way towards Wilkinkarra. Her artworks tend to be small pieces similar to the piece that Central Art has available.

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