Vaughan Springs Dreaming

Name: Vaughan Springs Dreaming
Brand: Ursula Napangardi Hudson
SKU: WA1131/25ny
Price: 230.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$230 AUD

Artist:

Ursula Napangardi Hudson

Size:

30cm x 30cm

Medium:

Acrylic

Vaughan Springs Dreaming is an original acrylic painting by Ursula Napangardi Hudson, a Warlpiri artist from Warlukurlangu Artists in Yuendumu, Northern Territory.

Measuring 30 × 30 cm, the painting depicts Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming), associated with an important natural spring and waterhole near Mount Doreen Station, northwest of Alice Springs.

The Dreaming tells the story of two ancestral rainbow serpents who lived together at Pikilyi. The serpents are the ceremonial owners of the Country and are associated with the water that continues to flow from the springs. The story is an important part of Warlpiri cultural knowledge, connecting ancestral beings, water sources and Country.

Ursula Napangardi Hudson has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists since 1993, creating contemporary interpretations of Dreamings passed down through her family. This original painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the art centre.

Story from the certificate of authenticity:

Pikilyi is a large and important waterhole and natural spring near Mount Doreen station. Pikilyi Jukurrpa (Vaughan Springs Dreaming), tells of the home of two rainbow serpents, ancestral heroes who lived together as man and wife. The woman, 'rainbow serpent', was of the Napanangka skin group, the man was a Japangardi. This was a taboo relationship contrary to Warlpiri religious law. Women of the Napangardi and Napanangka subsection sat by the two serpents, picking lice off them. For this service, the two serpents allowed the women to take water from the springs at Pikiyli. This was because the serpents were the 'kirda' or ceremonial owners for that country. The spirits of these two rainbow serpents are still at Pikilyi today. This Dreaming belongs to the women and men of the Japanangka/Napanangka and Japangardi/Napangardi skin groups.

Artists Biography

Ursula Napangardi Hudson was born in 1962 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community located 290 km north-west of Alice Springs in the NT of Australia.

Ursula attended the local school. When she finished she did odd jobs before marrying Mika Hudson, a pastor in Nyirripi, where she has lived ever since. Nyirripi is located a further 150 kms west-south west of Yuendumu. She has three children and six grandchildren. Ursula has been painting with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, since 1993.

The Art Centre makes regular visits to Nyirripi to drop off canvas, paint and brushes for the artists and to collect finished artwork. When Ursula was young she would watch her Aunty, Daisy Napanangka Nelson (Circa 1930–2002), paint. “She taught us to paint. I wanted to paint, to teach my kids when they grew up. Tell them the stories, tell the bush tucker stories when they go hunting. ”Ursula paints her father’s Yuparli Jukurrpa(Bush Banana Dreaming) and Pikilyi Jukurrpa(Vaughan Springs Dreaming), which her Aunty taught her and her mother’s Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming). These dreamings have been passed down the generations for millennia and relate directly to the land, its features and the plants and animals that inhabit it.Ursula uses an unrestricted palette to develop a modern interpretation of her traditional culture. On weekends, when Ursula is not painting she likes to go hunting for honey ants and goanna

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