Grant Samuel

Description : The designs depicted are from the rockhole site of Marrapinti, situated in a creek, west of the Pollock Hills in Western Australia. A group of women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections camped at this site during their travels east. While at the site, the women made nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn through a hole in the nose web. These nose bones were originally used by men and women, but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions. The women later continue their travels east, passing through Ngaminya on their way to Lake MacKay.

Biography of Artist: Lorna Napanangka was born at Papunya in 1961 and is a second generation Papunya Tula artist. She is the daughter of Timmy Payungka Tjapangati, an important early member of the Papunya painters of 1971; he was one of the founders of the Kintore settlementin 1981 and subsequentally moved to Kiwirrkura when it was established. Lorna has been painting for a relatively short time. She and her husband Billy Ward move between the communities at Kintore and Kiwirrkura.

Lorna is represented in both the national Gallery of Australia at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.