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Ngayuku Ngura 362-18 by Janet Tjitayi, Acrylic
Painting by Janet Tjitayi 10 Artworks Sold

Ngayuku Ngura 362-18

Acrylic (Requires Framing)

30cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 1cm (D)

Certificate of Authenticity Included
A$220
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Artwork Description

This painting depicts designs that evoke various parts of the landscape.If present the repeated curved shapes represent tali (sandhills). The concentric circles represent waterholes or meeting sites. Also the U shapes may represent women sitting around a waterhole. There are spinafex bushes, bush flowers and water courses. Beautiful country.

Artist Bio
Photo of Janet Tjitayi
Janet Tjitayi 10 artworks | 3 Sold

Janet Tjitayi is from Ernabella, an Aboriginal community in the Anangu Pitjatjatjara/Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in South Australia. She is married to Sid Anderson, ‘boss’ of Five Mile outstation, and has lived there with her family since the late 1980s. Her mother, Angkuna is from Nyapari and her father, Kim is from Pukara in the APY lands. Janet paints tjupi or honey ant. She also paints a sacred site called Pilati, the resting place of the Wanampi (water serpent). Piltati is near her mother's country of Nyapari on the APY Lands in South Australia.