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Ngoia
Napaltjarri Pollard
Luritja (born 1947)
Swamps Near Nyruppi, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
180 x 150 cm
PROVENANCE
Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrngu, Mt Liebig, NT
Neil Murphy Indigenous Art, Sydney, cat.no.NJM06/0313; accompanied by
original certificate of authenticity
Private Collection, Sydney
Ngoia Pollard paints her father’s country. This country is sacred
Warlpiri territory. This region is charged with the spiritual presence
of the ‘water snake’ which lives beneath the surface and Ngoia
describes this as being dangerous. Ngoia depicts the wet and dry characteristics
of this country. The oval shapes in Ngoia’s paintings are iconographic
representatives of the swamps and lakes near Nyirrpi (Talarada) North
West of Mt Liebig where Ngoia lives.