This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, to the west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The circles are rockholes and the lines are the sandhills surrounding the area. A large group of senior women camped at this rockhole making the nose-bones which are worn through a hole in the nose-web. These nose-bones were originally worn by both men and women but are now only worn by the older generations on ceremonial occasions. The women later travelled east passing through Wala Wala, Ngaminya and Kiwirrkura.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists
Provenance
Painted for Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Australia
The Collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, Australia, purchased in September 2003
Private collection, Spain
Exhibitions
"Ladies from Papunya", SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024
"Papunya 50 Years, 1971 - 2021", SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021
"Paintings from Remote Communities: Indigenous Australian Art from the Laverty Collection", Sydney, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia, 2007/2008
Please note that all Aboriginal Art is created from a so called ‘Birds Eye’ view. This means that the paintings can be hung either horizontally as well as vertically.
SmithDavidson Gallery represents a wide range of Australian Aboriginal Art, please contact for additional information.