Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (fire country Dreaming)
1988
- Artist/s name
- Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels
Warlpiri
Uni Nampijinpa Martin
Warlpiri
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 182.4 x 121.8
- Place/s of Execution
- Yuendumu, Northern Territory
- Accession Number
- O.46-1988
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased from Admission Funds, 1988
© Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels/Licensed by VISCOPY, Australia - Gallery Location
- Not on display
Fire country dreaming 1988 is a collaborative work by Uni Nampitjinpa and Dolly Nampitjinpa that tells the complex Warlukurlangu jukurrpa (Fire Country Dreaming) through undulations of radiant colour. The painting depicts the great fire created by Lungkarda, the ancestral blue-tongue lizard man, to punish his two sons for killing a sacred kangaroo in the Dreaming. The fire was followed by an immense storm that caused all forms of plant and animal life to flourish. The location for this Dreaming is Warlukurlangu, south-west of Yuendumu in the Northern Territory.
