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Kingfisher Dreamingby Ormay Nangala GallagherLuurnpa (Kingfisher) is the ancestral kingfisher who led the Kukaja people to their country in the Dreaming. He travelled from the north stopping at all the sources of living water in the desert. He came to Tjalputjalpa, north of Lake MacKay, and camped beside the warran, clay pans that join up to form at vast flood plain after heavy summer rains. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings, traditional iconography is used to represent the Dreaming. Artists depicted Luurnpa Jukurrpa using rectangular and circular shapes to indicate warran (creeks), and parallel transverse lines to depict Luurnpa’s spears. At some of the sacred places he visited, Luurnpa left special powers and “big law”. |
ArtistOrmay Nangala Gallagher comes from Yuendumu Community, approximately 300km from Alice Springs in Central Australia. Ormay is a Warlpiri artist who completed her teachers training and worked at the Nyirripi School. She began painting in the 1980’s and continues to paint today for Warlukurlangu Artists at Yuendumu. She typically paints her father’s Dreaming Emu and Ngapa featured at Mikanji as well as Pama-Pardu at Waylka and Wantungurru. In 2008 Ormay travelled with Warlukurlangu Artists to Bahrain and in 2009 to Delhi, India. Her paintings have been featured in a number of group exhibitions. |
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