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Lupulnga: Rockholes Dreaming
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This artwork comes with a certified formal valuation for the said amount by a N.C.J.V (Fine Arts) Specialist Valuer, who is approved to provide formal valuation certification for Australian painting, drawing, prints, sculpture after 1880; Photography after 1900; Indigenous art for the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program http://www.arts.gov.au/tax_incentives/cgp.
This painting is associated with the rock hole site of Lupulnga, a Peewee Dreaming place, south of Kintore, Central Australia. The design represents Kungka Kutjara (two women), Tali (Sandhills), body paint and spun hair-string, which is used for making hair-belts worn during the Women’s ceremonies. The Pintupi artists follow the strict custom that only certain people have the right (and copyright) to paint certain stories. The art has several layers of meaning, the deepest layer only understood by the initiated. Kungka Kutjarra (two women) are two ancestral figures traveled over great distances from Pitjantjajara country then north east through to and beyond Haaast Bluff and Papunya.
Makinti’s work is refreshingly and markedly different to other Pintupi painters both in subject matter and style. The wandering lines that so often feature in her paintings depict the swirling hair string skirts worn by women during ceremonies associated with certain sites. While the patterning refers to the skirts, the flowing rhythms of the lines hint at the songs and dances of the Pintupi women's ceremonies. While most of Makinti's imagery is related to the Kungka Kutjarra, it can also refer to the Kuningka - the western quoll - which is represented by circles. The quoll is a small animal that usually lives in burrows dug by other animals.
A 1997 winner of the 14th Telstra NATSIAA award and 2001 Finalist in the 18th Telstra NATSIAA and 2003 Finalist in the esteemed Clemenger Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria, Makinti was named as one of Australia’ s 50 most collectable artists in 2005. Her work is represented in many major collections in both Australia and overseas, including National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, , Queensland Art Gallery, Federal Court of Australia, Artbank, Artequity, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Shell Art Fund Collection, Macquarie Bank, Singapore Art Museum, British Museum, London and many others. More info.
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Artist
Makinti Napanangka
About artist Artwork
Created Year: 2006
Medium: Acrylic (Synthetic Polymer)
Genre: Aboriginal
Size: 196 × 150cm
Investment Grade: Blue Chip
Colour Palette: Neutrals
Catalogue: ABMN77RC
Medium: Acrylic (Synthetic Polymer)
Genre: Aboriginal
Size: 196 × 150cm
Investment Grade: Blue Chip
Colour Palette: Neutrals
Catalogue: ABMN77RC
Certified Valuation
$40,000.00
Sale Price
$39,000.00