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134 - Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (Luritja/Anmatyerre) (born 1967)…
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Estimate €2,500 - €3,500
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Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi (Luritja/Anmatyerre) (born 1967) Grandmothers country / My Grandmother’s Country 2024 Acrylic on linen canvas 120 x 156 cm Provenance: > Commissioned by Brian Knight of the Aboriginal Desert Art Gallery > Private collection, Paris Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Brian Knight on 2 February 2004 Condition report: Not stretched on a frame 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 held numerous solo exhibitions and completed high-profile commissions that have raised her profile as an artist. Among her peers and members of Indigenous tribes, she is highly respected as a ‘renowned artist’. Regarded as an artistic genius, she has travelled extensively to promote her art; in 2008, she painted in Artcurial’s showroom in Paris, a historic achievement in that, whilst a few artists have visited France, very few have painted there, and amongst those who have – notably her father – it had never before been done in a public setting; in this respect, she was the first to do so. In Australia, she notably arranged for works to be projected onto the side of the Sydney Opera House and ensured that a working Melbourne tram showcased her work. Her work has been featured in numerous books and catalogues, and she is the matriarch of a large family of painters who live and work in Melbourne, Australia. She proudly carries on her artistic family’s tradition and is one of the few artists who still maintains an artistic style that is easily recognisable as fundamentally traditional yet refreshingly contemporary. Gabriella paints the land and the stories of her paternal grandmother, Long Rose Nungala. She takes a topographical view of the land whilst simultaneously showing its reflection in the sky. The land is alive with dream paths that are followed at certain times of the year to gather edible plants. She depicts yams, berries, fruits and other vegetables which are harvested by the women of the tribe, usually by digging in the bush. It is a painting that recalls the past and educates the children of the future by providing clues as to the location of certain foods. Most of the verbal clues are passed on during ceremonies in which the young Kunga girls are shown the places where bush food grows in abundance. MJ
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About the sale Modern art • Contemporary art • Art Brut • Kinetic art • Photography • Aboriginal art
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Auction time 09/19/2026 at 10:30 AM
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