PROVENANCE
Yanda Fine Arts, NT
Agathon Galleries, VIC
Private collection, NSW
Naata Nungurrayi was about 30 years of age when she encountered the 'welfare patrol' in 1963, who forced her and her family to Papunya. She began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1996. Forced to leave behind her beloved desert homelands, the memory of these places and the life she led, has provided the inspiration and the subject matter for her highly sought-after paintings.
Naata’s paintings combine the carefully composed geometric style that developed at Papunya amongst the Pintupi painting men, with the looser technique and more painterly organic style introduced by the women after the painting camps of the early and mid 1990s.
This work depicts designs associated with the rockhole and soakage water site of Marrapinti, to the west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. The lines are sandhills surrounding the area, and the roundels represent rockholes.
