Kalaya Tjukurrpa (Emu Dreaming) near M’Bunghara Outstation on Glen Helen Station. The emu is travelling from the waterhole to his eggs while the Malu (kangaroo) is travelling between waterholes looking for water.
Name: Maryanne Raggett Nungarrayi
Language: Luritja, Anmatyerr
Community: Alice Springs
Biography:
Maryanne has been painting a for long time, previously for Warumpi Arts and Papunya Tula. She has lived for a long time in Alice Springs. She learnt to paint from her mother Daisy Leura Nakamarra, and her father Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, one of the founding Papunya men. Daisy, her mother was one of the first female painters of the Western Desert Art Movement. Both painted for Papunya Tula.
Maryanne lived at M'Bunghara Camp for many years before it was acquired and excised from the surrounding cattle station. She often recalls ceremony and big family groups coming together for holidays when she was a girl. She loves to paint the bush tucker from her Country.
Wardapi Jukurrpa ‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Read more…
Wardapi Jukurrpa ‘This painting is about the way women hunt Wardapi – that sand goanna. He digs holes in the dunes, makes his nest deep inside. Many of the holes all join up. Women hunt Read more…
Minkulpa Minkulpa (bush tobacco) plant growing, the leaves are ready to pick, dry them out and then they are ready. Lots of minkulpa growing after the rain.