Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi’s striking canvases are mod twists on the lessons learned from her father, the legendary creative Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. The founding master of the Central Desert’s modern movement, Clifford Possum is synonymous with the earliest and most important success in the international collectors’ markets. Nungurrayi worked with her father to create celebrated work, and has since become one of Australia’s top contemporary painters. She is prominently featured in the National Gallery of Australia and the Museum of Art of the Northern Territory, and from her installations at the Sydney Opera House to the Chelsea Flower Show, she is best known for painting “Grandmother’s Country." This topographical view of her people's age- old land shows vibrant symbols popping from a black background: concentric circles of abundant water, food and life; “U” shaped impressions left when people rise from seated positions in the sand; lines of inbound and outbound ancestors who are omnipresent. Women are the primary gatherers in the bush and Nungurrayi’s “Grandmother’s Country” is a bounty of yams, honey ants, berries and waterholes, all in the form of mesmerizing dots, lines, curves, squiggles and more.
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