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Ngapa Jukurrpa
Artist: Shorty Jangala Robertson
183 x 91 cm
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- Artist:Shorty Jangala Robertson
- Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
- ID:3301/07
- Medium:Acrylic on Belgian Linen
- Size:183 x 91 cm
- Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia
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Ngapa Jukurrpaby Shorty Jangala Robertson
The site depicted in this painting is Puyurru. In the usually dry creek bed are a number of water soakages or naturally occurring wells. Two Jangala men,who were rain-makers, sang the rain, unleashing a giant storm. It travelled across the country, with the lightning striking the land as it travelled. This storm linked up with another from Warpurtali to the west and was picked up by a Kirrkarlanji and carried further west until it dropped the storm at Purlangyanu, where it created a giant soakage. At Puyurru the bird dug up a giant snake, Warnayarra and the snake carried water with it create the large lake at Jillyiumpa, close to an outstation belonging to the family of a famous Walpiri painter. In Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa both curved and straight lines often used to represent the Ngawarra running through the landscape and small circles are used to represent Mulju. Mangkurdu are presented by horizontal lines joining the longer lines.
- Artist:Shorty Jangala Robertson
- Title:Ngapa Jukurrpa
- ID:3301/07
- Medium:Acrylic on Belgian Linen
- Size:183 x 91 cm
- Region:Yuendumu, Central Australia
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Artist
Shorty Jangala Robertson was born at Jila (Chilla Well), a large soakage and claypan north-west of Yuendumu. He lived a nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle with his parents, older brother and extended Warlpiri family. They travelled vast distances across desert country, passing through Warlukurlangu, south west of Jila and Ngarlikurlangu, and north of Yuendumu, visiting Jangala's skin brothers.
Shorty's childhood memories consist of stories associated with the Coniston massacre of Aboriginal people and the shooting of families at Wantaparri, which is close to Jila. Shorty had virtually no contact with white fellas during his youth but remembers leaving Jila for Mt Theo 'to hide' from being shot. After his father died at Mt Theo, Shorty moved with his mother to Mt Doreen Station, and subsequently the new settlement of Yuendumu.
During World War II, the army took people from Yuendumu to the other Warlpiri settlement at Lajamanu. Shorty was taken and separated from his mother however she came to get him on foot and together they traveled hundreds of miles back to Chilla Well. Drought food and medical supplies forced Shorty and his family back to Yuendumu from time to time. His working life was full of adventure and hard work for different enterprises in the Alice Springs Yuendumu area. He finally settled at Yuendumu in 1967 after the Australian Citizen Referendum.
It is extraordinary that in all his travels and jobs over his whole working life, Shorty escaped the burgeoning and flourishing Central Desert art movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Thus Shorty's paintings are fresh, vigorous and new. His use of colour to paint and interpret his dreamings of Ngapa (Water), Watiyawarnu (Acacia), Yankirri (Emu) and Pamapardu (Flying Ant) is vital, yet upholding the Warlpiri tradition. This accomplished artist is an active member of Warlukurlangu Co operative. He lives at Yuendumu with his wife and artist Lady Nungarrayi Robertson
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