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Travelling Womenby Sabrina Robertson NangalaThis artwork depicts the tracks of the travelling women from the Dreamtime, as they crossed the desert to reach to the Mina Mina Site. Even today the Warlpiri women regularly gather at this site in a ceremony to re-enact this Dreaming story. Here they paint each other's bodies with Dreaming designs and chant and dance the age old creation story. The ancient Mina Mina site is the birth place, where the digging sticks emerged from the ground. |
ArtistSabrina 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. |
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