Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (Fire country Dreaming) - Original Art

This is an original artwork by artist - Vanetta Nampijinpa Hudson, a member of the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation.

Additional canvas around the edge of the painting allows for stretching.

Artwork measures - 152 x 122 cm

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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:

This Dreaming belongs to Warlukurlangu country to the south-west of
Yuendumu, for which Jampijinpa/Jangala men and Nampijinpa/Nangala
women have custodial responsibility. An old man ‘lungkarda’ (centralian
blue-tongued lizard [Tiliqua multifasciata]), of the Jampijinpa skin group,
lived on a hill with his two Jangala sons. The old man would feign
blindness and send the two boys hunting in search of meat. While they
were gone he would hunt and eat anything that he caught before they
returned. One day the sons returned with a kangaroo that they had
caught after much tracking. Unfortunately the kangaroo was sacred to
the ‘lungkarda’, unbeknown to the boys. In his anger the old man
decided to punish his sons and the next time they went out, he put his
fire stick to the ground and sent a huge bush fire after them which
chased them for many miles, at times propelling them through the air.
Although the boys beat out the flames, ‘lungkarda's’ special magic kept
the fire alive and it re-appeared out of his blue-tongued lizard hole.
Exhausted the boys were finally overcome by the flames. In
contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to
represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements. Usually sites
that are depicted in paintings of this Jukurrpa include Warlukurlangu (a
men's cave), Kirrkirrmanu (where the sacred kangaroo was killed),
Wayililinypa (where the fire killed the two Jangala sons) and Marnimarnu
(a water soakage) where the two Jangalas camped.