Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) - Original Art
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This is an original artwork by artist - Valerie Napanangka Marshall, a member of the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation.
Additional canvas around the edge of the painting allows for stretching.
Artwork measures - 122 x 107 cm
This original artwork is unframed and shipped rolled up to your door! We have very competitive framing options on our site - see tab below to get a free online quote.
A stamped certificate of authenticity is supplied by Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation with this artwork.
Warlukurlangu Artists is famous for its gloriously colourful acrylic paintings and limited edition prints. The Aboriginal art centre has a national and international profile and its art has been featured in hundreds of exhibitions and publications in Australia and around the world. Warlukurlangu means ‘belonging to fire’ in the local language, Warlpiri, and is named for a fire dreaming site west of Yuendumu.
Established in 1985 Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation is a not-for-profit organisation that is 100% Aboriginal-owned by its artists from the remote desert communities of Yuendumu and Nyirripi in Central Australia. Proceeds from the sale of all art go directly back to the artists and their community projects. Warlukurlangu Artists is supported by funding from the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support.
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ARTWORK STORY:
Pikilyi is a large and important waterhole and natural spring near Mount
Doreen station. Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming) tells of the
home of two rainbow serpents, ancestral heroes who lived together as
man and wife. The woman ‘rainbow serpent’ was of the Napanangka
skin group, the man was a Japangardi. This was a taboo relationship
contrary to Warlpiri religious law. Women of the Napanangka and
Napangardi subsection sat by the two serpents, picking lice off them. For
this service, the two serpents allowed the women to take water from the
springs at Pikilyi. This was because the serpents were the ‘kirda’, or
ceremonial owners, for that country. The spirits of these two rainbow
serpents are still at Pikilyi today. This Dreamings belongs to the women
and men of the Japanangka/Napanangka and Japangardi/Napangardi
skin groups.
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