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NANCY NANINURRA NAPANANGKA (born circa 1932)
Acrylic on canvas
120 x 80 cm

Nancy has painted some of her country located a little south of Balgo in the Great
Sandy Desert. The painting depicts country named Tjukurjee and features warniri
(rockholes) represented by the central circle in the painting. The dotting
represents the tali (sandhills) and there is also an abundance of bush tucker to be
found here including karnti (bush potato).

PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills, Western Australia, painted 2005,
Certificate number 590/05

Nancy is a Kukatja woman whose country lies to the south and east of Balgo,
between Nyirripi, Kintore and Lappi Lappi. Nancy grew up on these lands and in
her early twenties a white man brought her family to Mount Doreen Station near
Yuendumu and they settled there for a while. Nancy married a Walpiri man from
the Tanami area and lived in Yuendumu, then at the Granites where he worked in
the mine while Nancy brought up their first two children, a daughter and a son.
The family gradually moved northwest from the Tanami to Gordon Downs where
they had another son. Nancy has outlived her husband and is settled at Balgo with
other Warlpiri people. Together with her sisters, Nancy is an important law woman
with responsibility to maintain the song cycles of her country.

REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
Araluen Collection, Alice Springs
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
Kluge Ruhe Collection, USA