Skinny Bush Banana

Name: Skinny Bush Banana
Brand: Nola Fisher
SKU: WA3783/22
Price: 870.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$870 AUD

Artist:

Nola Fisher

Size:

152cm x 30cm

Medium:

Acrylic on canvas

Orientation

This artwork can be hung landscape or portrait

‘Purrpalanji’ (skinny bush banana, Rhyncharrhena linearis) is a twining climber with thin leaves and pink-brown flowers. Its long, slender, edible pods can grow up to 20 cm and, like ‘yuparli’ (bush banana, Marsdenia australis), most parts of the plant are eaten except the woody stems. It grows rapidly after rain and is highly fire tolerant.

The Purrpalanji Jukurrpa (Skinny Bush Banana Dreaming) comes from Pikilyi (Vaughan Springs), a large waterhole and natural spring west of Yuendumu near Mount Doreen. Napangardi/Napanangka women and Japangardi/Japanangka men are the kirda (owners) of this Dreaming, while Nangala women and Jangala men are the kurdungurlu (custodians).

At Pikilyi, Napangardi and Napanangka women gather ‘purrpalanji’ and ‘yuparli’ in parraja (coolamons). The plants are cooked in hot ashes to remove their acidic taste. This Dreaming is specific to Pikilyi and does not travel to other sites. Pikilyi is also connected to a number of other important Dreamings, including bush banana, blue mallee seed, cockatoo, and the two snakes Jukurrpa, in which Napangardi and Napanangka women pick lice from the snakes living in the waterhole.

In Warlpiri painting, traditional iconography is used to describe these stories. Curved lines represent the long, slender edible pods of the purrpalanji plant.

Artists Biography

Nola Napangardi Fisher was born in 1958 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the Central Desert. She attended the local school before completing further studies in Health at Batchelor College, Darwin. In 1995 she received a Department of Health Certificate of Appreciation for 10 years of service. Earlier in her career she ran the health clinic in Nyirripi and she now works for the Department of Health in Yuendumu. Nola is married and has three children, as well as many grandchildren.

Nola has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2004. She paints Ngurlu Jukurrpa (Native Seed Dreaming), Karnta Jukurrpa (Women’s Dreaming), Yurrampi Jukurrpa (Honey Ant Dreaming), and Yuparli Jukurrpa (Bush Banana Dreaming) from her father’s side, and Janganpa Jukurrpa (Possum Dreaming) from her mother’s side. She also paints several important sites that have belonged to her family for countless generations. All of her stories relate to the foods, animals and features of her traditional country.

Nola still enjoys going out with groups of women to collect traditional foods, continuing practices that connect her to her Country and heritage. She paints colourful representations of her Jukurrpa stories, which she hopes to pass on to her grandchildren and to share with non-Aboriginal people to help them better understand Aboriginal ways. “When I’m on holidays I sometimes paint and sell my paintings to tourists in the city so that they will hear my stories,” she says.

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