GABRIELLA POSSUM NUNGURRAYI
This artwork is an aerial perspective of Gabriella’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. This 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.
Year: 2025
Dimensions: 840 x 1160 mm
Medium: Synthetic Polymer Paints on Canvas
Stretching Status: Stretched
$3,800.00 AUD
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