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Women’s Ceremony
, 151 x 90 Synthetic Polymer on Primed Canvas, 2005.JPG "Women’s Ceremony")
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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.
Nanyuma Napangardi is a Pintupi senior law woman and a sister to Charlie Tjapangati and Bambatua Napangardi, both collectable artists. Nanyuma Napangardi was born c.1940 in Kiwirrkurra country and began painting for Papunya Tula Artists in 1990. In 1999, Nanyuma participated in the Kiwirrkurra Women's Painting project to raise money for the Kintore Aboriginal Community in the Western Desert.
Awelye is the Anmatyerre word for women's ceremonies. Awelye also refers specifically to the designs applied to a women's body as part of a ceremony. The Awelye is performed by Aboriginal women to recall their ancestors, to show respect for their country and to demonstrate their responsibility for the wellbeing of their community. Since it reflects women's role as the nurturer the awelye makes connections with the fertility of the land and a celebration of the aboriginal food it provides. It is women's business and is never done in the presence of men.
The awelye ceremony begins with the women painting each others' bodies in designs relating to a particular women's Dreaming and in accordance with their skin name and tribal hierarchy. The awelye designs represent a range of Dreamings including animals and plants, healing and law. The designs are painted on the chest and shoulders using powders ground from ochre, charcoal and ash. It is applied with a flat stick with padding or with fingers in raw linear and curved lines.
This is a meditative and sensual experience. The act of decorating the body transforms the individual and changes their identity. During the painting which can take up to three hours, the women chant their Dreaming. The final part of the ceremony is when the women dance and chant.
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Artist
Nanyuma Napangardi
About artist Artwork
Created Year: 2005
Medium: Acrylic (Synthetic Polymer)
Genre: Aboriginal
Size: 151 × 90cm
Investment Grade: Speculative
Colour Palette: Bright
Catalogue: ABNNA90RC
Medium: Acrylic (Synthetic Polymer)
Genre: Aboriginal
Size: 151 × 90cm
Investment Grade: Speculative
Colour Palette: Bright
Catalogue: ABNNA90RC
Certified Valuation
$3,000.00
Sale Price
$3,000.00