Walyatjatjara
2010
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 167.7 × 182.5 cm irreg.
- Place/s of Execution
- Kalka, Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia
- Inscription
- inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: 167 x 183 cm
inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.l.: NKSB10398 SANDY BRUMBY
inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.l.: NINUKU ARTS
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.l.: AK16808 - Accession Number
- 2011.354
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2011
© Sandy Brumby, courtesy Niuku Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 3
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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Sandy Brumby paints his Country, Walyatjatjara, an important place associated with the Seven Sisters Dreaming located north of Kalka in South Australia. The dominant shapes in the painting represent the mayi (bush food) found at this site. The small figure in the bottom-left corner represents the mischievous old man Nyiru, who chased the Seven Sisters right across the Western Desert and through the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands. The sisters constantly evaded his sexual advances until they finally became part of the Pleiades, a star cluster of which seven are visible in the southern sky below the Belt of Orion.
