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Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (Luritja/Anmatyerre) (born 1967)…
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Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (Luritja/Anmatyerre) (born 1967)…
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Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
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Description
Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (Luritja/Anmatyerre) (born 1967) Grandmothers country / Le Pays de ma grand-mère 2024 Acrylic on linen 120 x 156 cm Provenance: > Commissioned by Brian Knight of the gallery Aboriginal desert art
> Private collection Paris
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Brian Knight on 2 February 2004 Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is the eldest daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. She has been painting as an independent artist since the mid-1980s and has had numerous solo exhibitions and high-profile commissions that have raised her profile as an artist. Among her peers and Aboriginal tribes, she is highly respected as a 'celebrated artist'. Considered an artistic genius, she has travelled extensively to promote her art, in 2008 painting in the Artcurial showroom in Paris, a landmark achievement in that, while a few artists have visited France, very few have painted there and of those who have, notably her father, it had never been done in a public forum, so in that respect she was the first to do so. In Australia, she has had work projected onto the side of the Sydney Opera House and had a working Melbourne tram display her work. She has been published in numerous books and catalogues and is the matriarch of a large family of painters who live and work in Melbourne, Australia. She proudly carries on the tradition of her artistic family and is one of the few artists who still maintains an artistic style that is easily recognisable as being fundamentally traditional yet freshly contemporary.
Gabriella paints the land and stories of her father's mother, Long Rose Nungala. She takes a topographical view of the land and at the same time shows its reflection in the sky. The land is alive with dreamy trails that are followed at certain times of the year to harvest edible plants. It shows yams, berries, fruit and other vegetables harvested by the women of the tribe, usually by digging in the bush. This is a painting that remembers the past and educates its children for the future by giving clues about the location of certain foods. Most of the verbal clues are passed on during ceremonies in which young kungas (girls) are shown where bush food grows in abundance.
MJ
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