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MICELLE POSSUM NUNGURRAYI
TITLE: Body Paint
SIZE: 106cm X 43cm (41.7" X 16.9")
MEDIUM: acrylic on canvas
YEAR PAINTED: 2006
PROVENANCE: Purchased directly from the artist.
This traditional
painting clearly shows Michelle Possum's Papunya/Anmatjira origins. She has
shown a women's ceremony executed in the style of a ceremonial ground
painting.
The roundels are ceremonial meeting places where women's dancing takes
place. The area is prepared by constructing a sacred circular design on the
ground. The ceremonial singing and dancing is performed at this place. The
striped triangular shapes represent the red ochre body paint designs worn in
the ceremony. The white lines connecting the circles are the paths to the
ceremonial grounds. Ground and body patterns such as this are understood to
have been shown to the first humans by the spirit ancestors in the dreamtime
creation period. This symbolic painting is a rare example of this subject by
the artist.
This painting will be couriered in a safe and sturdy postal tube to avoid any damage of the artwork whilst in transit.
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