Noŋgirrŋa Marawili

2019, collagraph
PAPER SIZE: 64 x 100 cm
PRINT SIZE: 64 x 100 cm
Edition of 20
Cat No 3935-19
Price UF

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2019 Gapan Gallery
Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre

Baratjala is a Madarrpa clan estate adjacent to Cape Shield where the artist visited by canoe with her father and his many wives as a young girl. Her father’s name was Mundukul and this is also the name of the serpent (also known as Water Python, Burrut’tji or Liasis Fuscus) which lives deep beneath the sea here.

This design shows the deep water and the ‘curse’ or oath that the snake spits into the sky in the form of lightning from this place.

At the base of the image a rock sits firm in the Madarrpa land against which this sea crashes.

The background design was created by taking a collagraph from a heavily worked glue paste applied to a board and the overlay was created by screenprint.

– BUKU-LARRŊGAY MULKA CENTRE