Michelle Possum Nungurrayi
Grandmother's Country
acrylic on linen
97 x 186 cm
38 1/4 x 73 1/4 in
38 1/4 x 73 1/4 in
MM6784
Michelle Possum Nungurrayi is an Anmatyerre artist born in 1970 at Mt Allan, NT. She is the youngest daughter of the famous Papunya artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and sister to...
Michelle Possum Nungurrayi is an Anmatyerre artist born in 1970 at Mt Allan, NT. She is the youngest daughter of the famous Papunya artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and sister to Gabriella Possum. A highly talented artist, Michelle paints Women’s Dreamings of her homelands in a vibrant and dynamic style. Michelle, her sister Gabriella and brother Lionel, were taught to paint by their highly talented father. She began painting at a young age in the mid 1980's and to this day, carries on the traditional stories, style and much of the iconography of Clifford Possum, albeit with stronger colour and the addition of women's ceremonial stories and other women's dreamings. These include stories from Yuelamu, her home country of Mt Allan, and are often aerial maps of her country, describing the various important sites she knows well. The traditional and semi figurative iconography she inherited from her father features strongly in her works. She also paints the Seven Sisters, bush tucker stories including bush coconut, seed, and exploding seed dreamings, fire dreamings, worm dreamings, goanna dreaming, and grandmother's country - many of which she works together in a riot of complex colours.
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