Description

Joy Nakamarra

TITLE: 'Dingo went hunting for kangaroo & emu'
PAINTED IMAGE SIZE: Approx 1445 x 685 mm [plus border]
COMPLETED: 2008
MEDIUM: Acrylic paint on cotton canvas

THE PAINTING: A wonderful example of Joy's symbolic design skills and attention to detail as she depicts the dingo hunting for kangaroo and emu. The various animals are depicted by their traditional footprints. Other iconic imagery includes water holes, bush tracks and spinifex. This is a wonderful piece of aboriginal art that would look equally at home taking pride of place on a feature wall or enhancing your investment portfolio.

NOTE: Please see othe photos below.

THE ARTIST:
BORN: c1959
REGION: Coniston Station, Utopia, Central Australia
TRIBE: Anmatjere
LANGUAGE GROUP: Anmatyerre

Joy Nakamarra has a very distinctive and detailed style of painting. Her works often combine areas of traditional dots, detailed characterisations and more general brush marks. Her designs are based on dreaming stories, mainly focused around the collecting and gathering of bush tucker. These Dreamings have been handed down to her by the ancestors in her family and include Collecting Bush Berries and Sultanas, Collecting Bush Onions, Collecting Bush Potato Beans and Water, Collecting Bush Tomato, Honey Ants and Tracking Kangaroo, as well as Women's Dreamings. Her sense of design and attention to detail, usually in a compact space, has earned her much acclaim, and as such, her works have been extensively exhibited and collected.

PROVENANCE: A Certificate of Authenticity with a photo of Joy holding her work, that she has titled and signed verso.
 

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