Lynn Ward Napangardi Luritja, Warlpiri, b. 6/12/1978
59 7/8 x 48 1/8 in
This painting depicts the Tali (Sandhills) at Kalipinypa, north-east of Kintore. Kalipinypa is Lynn's family's country.
Kalipinypa is the story of a rain and hail making ceremony. Ancestral forces are invoked to bring on a powerful storm with lightning, thunderclouds and rain sending a deluge to rejuvenate the earth, filling the rock holes, clay pans and creeks and creating new life and growth upon the land. Today the Nakamarra, Tjakamarra, Napurrula and Tjupurrula men and women are the custodians of this important Water Dreaming site and celebrate its stories in the ceremonies.
Many artists in Lynn's family paint different aspects of this story. Lynn is particularly inspired by her mother Charlotte Phillipus (an established artist and director of Papunya Tjupi) who also focusses on the sandhills of the site, and seeing these sandhills flash with lightning.
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