Fire Country Dreaming

Name: Fire Country Dreaming
Brand: Nathania Nangala Granites
SKU: WA3225/24
Price: 1700.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$1,700 AUD

Artist:

Nathania Nangala Granites

Size:

91cm x 91cm

This Dreaming belongs to Warlukurlangu country, south-west of Yuendumu, for which Jampijinpa/Jangala men and Nampijinpa/Nangala women hold custodial responsibility. It tells the story of an old man, Lungkarda (the Centralian blue-tongued lizard, Tiliqua multifasciata), of the Jampijinpa skin group, who lived on a hill with his two Jangala sons.

Lungkarda pretended to be blind and would send his sons out hunting, while he stayed behind and secretly caught and ate all the game himself. One day the sons returned with a kangaroo they had tracked for a long time, not knowing that the animal was sacred to their father. Angered, the old man decided to punish them. The next time the boys went hunting, he placed his fire stick on the ground and unleashed a great bushfire that chased them for many miles, at times lifting them into the air.

Although the boys managed to beat back the flames, Lungkarda’s magic kept the fire alive, and it re-emerged from his blue-tongued lizard hole. Eventually, exhausted, the Jangala sons were overcome by the fire.

In contemporary Warlpiri painting, traditional iconography is used to depict this Jukurrpa, its sites and its elements. Key places associated with the story include Warlukurlangu (the men’s cave), Kirrkirrmanu (where the sacred kangaroo was killed), Wayililinypa (where the fire consumed the two Jangala sons), and Marnimarnu (a water soakage where the boys once camped).

Artists Biography

Nathania Nangala Granites was born in Alice Springs Hospital, the closest hospital to Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia. She was born into a family of artists. Her mother is Valda Napangardi Granites and her grandmother is Alma Nungarrayi Granites (Dec), an established artist who has exhibited in Australia and overseas. Nathania grew up listening to her mother’s and her father’s Jukurrpa stories and watching her family paint. She went to the local school in Yuendumu. When she finished school, she assisted Yasmin Napurrular Musharbash, taking photos for Yasmin’s study of everyday life in an Aboriginal camp. Nathania is married and has a little boy born in 2011.

Nathania has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 2011. She paints her father’s Jukurrpa, particularly Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming) and Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa (Fire Country Dreaming). She also paints her grandmother’s Yanjirlpirri or Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa (Star or Seven Sisters Dreaming). These stories have been passed down over the generations for millennia and relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it. Nathania uses an unrestricted palette to depict a modern interpretation of her traditional culture.

When Nathania is not working, she is taking care of her baby son, or helping out at the Art Centre assisting in the preparation of art canvasses.

She is also Nampijinpa. She has got two skin-names.

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