{"title":"GABRIELLA POSSUM NUNGURRAYI","description":"\u003cp\u003eMY GRANDMOTHER’S COUNTRY\n\u003cbr\u003eThis painting depicts Gabriella Possum’s Grandmother’s country near Napperby, Northern Territory, Australia. A songline passed down to her by her paternal Grandmother, Long Rose Nungala and the other senior women who taught her in her formative years of a place that is to culturally important to the artist and her ancestry that is abundant with vegetation, bush food and water.\n\u003cbr\u003eThis work is an abstract aerial landscape depicting motifs of natural resources such as bush food and sources of water on her country using traditional iconography. Women are shown gathering food, depicted by the \"U\" shapes throughout the work. Spinifex grasses are scattered through the landscape alongside bush foods and native plants used for bush medicine. Concentric circle symbols identify campfire and ceremony sites. This painting provides an excellent overview of a culturally important sites where the women gather for ceremony and engage in ritual song and dance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSEVEN SISTERS DREAMING\n\u003cbr\u003eThis is the ancient myth of the Milky Way and the Seven Sisters (Pleiades). This dreaming was inherited by Gabriella from her mother and grandmother and given to Gabriella by her father. \n\u003cbr\u003eThis story takes place at ‘twenty mile’ located near Napperby Creek in the Northern Territory. The Seven Sisters travelled over a vast expanse of country, until they realised that they were being followed by a man called Wati-Nyiru (who was a Tjakamarra man).\n\u003cbr\u003eWith little hope of relief, the seven sisters escaped through a fire at Kurlunyalimpa to the Milky Way where they became the stars of the Pleiades in the Constellation Taurus.  There they are safe and at rest and watch out over all the women on earth. Wati-Nyiru followed them to the heavens, and become the star Orion, unable to get near them as they move across the night sky. Gabriella depicts the cloud formations in front of the Milky Way in the night sky. The seven concentric circles represent the seven sisters while the lone star represents Orion (the Tjakamarra man) reforming the constellation of Pleiades. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSalt lake\n\u003cbr\u003ePassed down to her by her father Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Gabriella’s Salt Lake dreaming is a story of her country which is dominated by salt lakes, claypan soakages and sandhills. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFed by the nearby Napperby Creek, during periods of heavy rain the lake can grow beyond its usual size and can last as long as six months. The water is mostly salty and undrinkable however in certain places it does change to fresh water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe artwork depicts the wind moving across the salt lake, soakages and sandhills. Dancing tracks of women performing ceremony can also be seen throughout the painting.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"my-grandmothers-country-23","title":"My Grandmother's Country","description":"","brand":"GABRIELLA POSSUM NUNGURRAYI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42376148385840,"sku":"KFA25203","price":12250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/5101\/5216\/files\/6566058b-4194-4f14-a8c3-10594a323a2e-l_29810ba6-6ddc-4095-b430-de78b69016ad.jpg?v=1778596759"},{"product_id":"seven-sisters-dreaming","title":"Seven Sister's Dreaming","description":"","brand":"GABRIELLA POSSUM NUNGURRAYI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43055826927664,"sku":"KFA2691","price":3600.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0594\/5101\/5216\/files\/1d8ad84b-0305-4282-82c9-3888ed116797-l.jpg?v=1779375911"}],"url":"https:\/\/knightfineart.com.au\/collections\/gabriella-possum-nungurrayi.oembed","provider":"Knight Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}