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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Janet Golder Kngwarreye, My Father's Country , 2023

Janet Golder Kngwarreye Anmatyerre, b. 1973

My Father's Country , 2023
acrylic on linen
93 x 130 cm
36 5/8 x 51 1/8 in
MM7672
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Born in 1973 Janet Golder Kngwarreye is a mid generation artist of the Utopia region. Here she has celebrates her country through depicting a number of its key women's ancestral...
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Born in 1973 Janet Golder Kngwarreye is a mid generation artist of the Utopia region.

Here she has celebrates her country through depicting a number of its key women's ancestral creation stories. These include bush melon, bush yam (of which she is a traditional custodian) and women's ceremonies (awelye) in which women paint their bodies and perform songs and dances to bring fertility to the lands.

Paintings of country often portray personal stories and memories of country that is significant to the artist. as well as women's ancestral stories iconography of geographic elements within the desert landscape are depicted. These include rock holes, underground springs, mountain and rock formations, and sacred sites. These are meticulously recorded from memory and often depicted from an aerial perspective.
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