Wirrul (from Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya: same stories a new way)

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Wirrul (from Tjukurrpa Palurukutu, Kutjupawana Palyantjanya: same stories a new way)

Artist Ningura Napurrula (Australian, Pintupi, born 1938)

Publisher Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd

Printer Firebox Print Studio (Dian Darmansjah)

Place of OriginAustralia | Pintupi language group

Date2009

DimensionsSheet: H: 21 5/8 in. (55 cm); W: 17 11/16 in. (45 cm)

MediumPrint, etching on Hahnemuhle rag paper.

ClassificationPrints

Credit LineGift of Sara Jane DeHoff

Object number

2013.185H

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Label TextThis etching depicts designs associated with Wimrlnga, a rockhole site in a small rocky outcrop east of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia. In Ancestral times a group of women of the Napaltjarri and Napurrula kinship subsections camped at this site, after travelling from the rockhole site of Ngaminya further west. The women are represented in the etching by the two arc shapes beside the roundel. Wirrulnga is a site associated with birth; the lines adjacent to the roundel symbolize the extended shape of a pregnant Napaltjarri woman who gave birth at the site.Exhibition History

Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Papunya Tula: Works on Paper, December 13, 2012 – March 24, 2013.