Ngapa Jukurrpaby Sabrina Robertson Nangala

The site depicted in this painting in Pirlinyarnu. The owners of this Dreaming are the Nangala and Nampijinpa women and the Jangala and Jampijinpa men. The story tells of two Jangala men, rainmakers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm that collided with another storm. The Kirrkarlanji carried the storm further west. The two storms travelled across the country from Karlipirnpa, a ceremonial site for water Dreaming. Along the way the storms passed through important places and before long became to heavy for the falcon to carry. It dropped the water at Pirlinyarnu where it formed an enormous clay-pan. A water soakage exists in this place today. Whenever it rains, hundreds of bush ducks still flock to Pirlinyarnu.

Artist:Sabrina Robertson Nangala
Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
ID:5428-16
Medium:Acrylic on Canvas
Size:46 x 30 cm
Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia

Artist

Sabrina Nangala Robertson was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 north-west of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She was the daughter of the acclaimed Aboriginal artist Dorothy Napangardi, who passed away in 2013. Sabrina grew up in Yuendumu and went to the local school. She lives with her family between living in Yuendumu and Alice Springs. Sabrina has close connection with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre in Yuendumu, since 2005. She depicts her father's Jukurrpa or Dreaming, stories passed down to her by her father and her father's father before her for millennia. These stories relate to her traditional land, Pirlinyarnu (Mt Farewell), its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it.
Sabrina has exhibited in Australia and in France. Along with sister Julie Nangala they are become recognised ifor their own styles.

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