Ngayarta Kujarra
2009
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 300.6 × 500.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Punmu, Western Australia
- Accession Number
- 2011.276
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 2011
© the artists, courtesy Martumili Artists, Newman
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Gallery 1
Ground Level, NGV Australia - About this work
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Ngayartu Kujarra was painted using a mixture of rose, peach, pink, sage, white, blue and gold acrylic paints. Along the border of the canvas are twenty-nine vivid cobalt blue circles, each labelled with the name of a sacred waterhole in the East Pilbara region. The centre is rendered with an expansive wash of white paint, the artists’ unique way of depicting the central subject matter Ngayartu Kujarra – an immense salt lake known to many as Lake Dora. It is a vast, collaborative work made by twelve women across three generations from Martumili, in Western Australia.