Bush Turkey & Snake Dreaming

Name: Bush Turkey & Snake Dreaming
Brand: Lily Hargraves
SKU: WARN71-16
Price: 1635.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$1,635 AUD

Artist:

Lily Hargraves

Size:

85cm x 50cm

Medium:

Acrylic on Canvas

Orientation

This artwork can be hung landscape or portrait

In this dreaming some snakes went out from a place east of Lajamanu, in the Tanami Desert, called Mirirrinyungu. The snakes are called Jutiya in Warlpiri. They were looking for water. They looked for water for a long time, but they didn't find any. While they were looking ,they saw turkeys at Kurlurrngalinypa. The snakes were feeling cold.They went down in to the warm earth and stayed underground forever, never to emerge. The dreaming belongs to Jungurrayi/Japaljarri and Nungarray/Napaljarri groups.

Artists Biography

Lily Hargraves Nungarrayi was one of the old desert walkers, born in the Tanami Desert near Jilla (Chilla) Well. In 1950, when the Warlpiri population outgrew Yuendumu, she moved with many others to the remote settlement of Lajamanu, where she lived until her passing in 2018.

Nungarrayi was a key figure in the first women’s painting workshops at Lajamanu in 1986. Deeply involved in women’s ceremonial practice and Law, she balanced hunting bush food with her work at Warnayaka Art Centre, where senior women painted and chanted their songlines. Her early paintings used a restricted palette and detailed ceremonial themes, but over time her style became bold, gestural and richly coloured. She was a respected senior Law woman committed to preserving Warlpiri culture through art.

Her works often depict Ngalyipi (Medicine/Snake Vine), Mala (Wallaby) and Karnta (Women’s Dreaming), and are held in significant collections across Australia, the USA and Europe. Known for her fiery temperament - nicknamed “Glurpunta,” or “fighting spirit” - she was fiercely committed to the quality of her work. Judith Ryan of the NGV recalled how Nungarrayi once tore up an early painting destined for the gallery, insisting she create a stronger one instead.

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This is in no small part due to owner Nichola Dare’s regular trips to some of the most remote parts of Australia and her ability to build relationships with art centres and artists, based on mutual trust and respect. Nichola’s time in Australia’s Western Desert, The Kimberley, APY Lands and Arnhem Land has also given her a deep understanding of the country and culture at the heart of the art we sell.

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