Artist: Andrea Nungarrayi Martin
Title: Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa
Size: 153 cm x 87 cm
Date: 2002
Language Group: Warlpiri
Description: This exquisitely detailed picture by Andrea Nungarrayi Martin is a depiction of fire dreamings. Pairs of hunters, complete with spears, woomera and boomerangs accompany fire sites, dispersed across the country.
Biography of Artist: Andrea Nungarrayi Martin was born in 1965 and lives at Yuendumu. She is a member of a family recognized for its artistic achievements. Clifford Tjapaltjarri Possum was her uncle and many of her family are at Yuendumu, painting. She has achieved widespread recognition for her work and has exhibited in Perth, Alice Springs, Darwin, Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney. Her works are in the Museé National des Arts Africains et Oceaniens, Paris, South Australian Museum, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Flinders University and Gantner Myer Foundation. The John Kluge (Kluge Foundation, USA) commissioned a major work ‘Karrku Jukurrpa’ by twenty nine women (including Andrea) and five men from Yuendumu. This enormous work (380 x 680 cm), which is in the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia, has similar broad structural characteristics to those found in Warlukulangu Jukurrpa, though the actual composition and the dreaming which inspired the work are quite different.
