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YINARUPA NANGALA (born circa 1960)
Acrylic on Belgian linen
122 x 122 cm

This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Mukula, east of Jupiter Well in Western Australia. During mythological times a large group of ancestral women came from the west and stopped at this site to perform the ceremonies associated with the area. They later continued their travels towards the east passing through Ngaminya, Kiwirrkura and Wirrulnga on their way to Wilkinkarra. As the women travelled they gathered a variety of bush foods including kampurarrpa berries (desert raisin) from the small shrub Solanum Centrale, and pura (bush tomato) from the plant Solanum Chippendalei. The shapes in the painting represent the features of the country through which they travelled as well as the bush food they gathered.

PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty. Ltd., Alice Springs, painted at Alice Springs 2007,
Certificate number YN0702152

Yinarupa is the daughter of the artist Anatjari Tjampitjinpa, a former shareholder of Papunya Tula Artists who is now deceased. She appears as a small child in the book ‘The Lizard Eaters’. Her sister Mantua Nangala and brother Ray James Tjangala are also in the book. She was married to Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi, who was also an artist and shareholder who passed away in December 1998. In 1999 Yinarupa contributed to the Kiwirrkura women’s painting as part of the Western Desert Dialysis Appeal.