Acrylic on Belgian linen
180 x 150 cm
Ningie has painted some of her country south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert.
This country is known as Winturlka after the tjurrnu (soakwater) depicted as
the circle in the painting. The many parallel lines represent floodplains as
well as the tali (sand hills) found in this country. This is the country of
Ningie’s
youth and is where both of her parents were killed when she was a young girl.
PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2004,
Catalogue number 327/04
Ningie was born in the Pippar/Kiwirrkura area. Her mother and father died when
she was very young, and she came to Balgo Mission on the invitation of Aboriginal
people living there, when her family group was camped at Lirrwati close to
Balgo. Like many people at the time, she returned to her own country before
settling more permanently at the old mission, first at Tjalywarn then at its
present site at Warrumanu from 1962. As a young girl she tended the mission
goats, gathering bush food for them to eat. She married and had four children.
After her first husband passed away, she married Tjumpo, another important
Balgo artist, and had a further five children.
REPRESENTED
Laverty Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA
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