Marlu Jukurrpa, (Kangaroo Dreaming)
1987
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© Paddy Japaljarri Stewart/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
- Gallery location
- Gallery 20
Level 3, NGV Australia
About this work
Paddy Japaljarri Stewart was one of five senior men who worked on the Yuendumu Doors project of 1983–84. This work from early in the artist’s career depicts one of the artist’s Dreamings – marlu, the ancestral kangaroo, associated with the site of Yanarriliyi (Mound Dennison), east of Yuendumu. Marlu travelled all the way to Yatarla, far to the west. Japaljarri has shown the kangaroo travelling from its ngurra (central camp or home) in search of food and camping beside mulju (soakages) and hills. The path of the kangaroo is depicted by its red wirliya (tracks), indicative of the marks left in the ground by his tail and paws. The four curvilinear patches outlined with white dots represent the kangaroo lying down asleep. The variegated background indicates topographical features of the Country through which the kangaroo travelled and left his spiritual essence.
Artwork Details
The Joseph Brown Collection. Presented through the NGV Foundation by Dr Joseph Brown AO OBE, Honorary Life Benefactor, 2004
© Paddy Japaljarri Stewart/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Level 3, NGV Australia