Purrungu

Name: Purrungu
Brand: Jillian Giles
SKU: TJ22-1257
Price: 3100.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$3,100 AUD

Artist:

Jillian Giles

Size:

147.3cm x 121.9cm

Medium:

Acrylic on Canvas

Orientation

This artwork can be hung landscape or portrait

This is my mother’s story from Purrungu, near Tjurkurla. There is a waterhole there where people would sit, rest and sleep. An underground rockhole lies beneath the surface, surrounded by tali (sandhills), kapi (water) and a lake. Irititja, long ago, the women travelled across this Country collecting bush tucker with their families, crossing the sandhills and moving from place to place. When the rain came, they would see the water filling the creeks and rockholes. They might travel on to places like Pangkurrpirri or Yilpikarri, but they always came back.

This Tjukurrpa is Minyma Kutjarra, the story of two women. The two women were at the rockhole, sitting together and digging. One woman, a mother with a baby, needed water for her milk. She had to go down into the underground rockhole to collect kapi, going in while it was full and wet. She would put the water on her mimi (breasts). But there was a snake living in that rockhole, so she could not turn her back to it. She had to move slowly and carefully, always facing the snake, stepping backwards with the water.

This is my mother’s Dreaming, and I cannot paint a different story. She told me I must paint it this way, and after she passed away we continue to follow her teachings. I thought about painting the two women on the canvas, the minyma, but decided to leave it as she always did. I paint the lake, the rockhole, the water and the sandhills - just as my mother taught me. It is the same story, happening in the same place. Yuwa, this is truly Tjukurrpa.

Artists Biography

Jillian grew up in Kaltukatjara (Docker River) with her parents and her five siblings. She went to school in Alice Springs. She learnt to paint from her mother the Tjukurrpa of the Tjukurla area. She has been living and painting both in Alice Springs and across the Ngaanyatjarra lands in recent years, and visits family in Tjukurla where she paints with the Tjarlirli artists.

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