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Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
167.7 × 182.5 cm irreg.
Place/s of Execution
Kalka, Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia
Inscription
inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse u.l.: 167 x 183 cm
inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.l.: NKSB10398 SANDY BRUMBY
inscribed (vertically) in fibre-tipped pen on reverse l.l.: NINUKU ARTS
inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on reverse c.l.: AK16808
Accession Number
2011.354
Department
First Nations Australia
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, NGV Supporters of Indigenous Art, 2011
© Sandy Brumby, courtesy Niuku Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work

Sandy Brumby paints his Country, Walyatjatjara, an important place associated with the Seven Sisters Dreaming, located north of Kalka in South Australia. The dominant shapes in the painting represent the mayi (bush food) found at this site. The small figure in the bottom-left corner represents the mischievous old man Nyiru, who chased the Seven Sisters right across the Western Desert and through the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The Sisters constantly evaded his sexual advances and finally became part of the Pleiades, a star cluster of which seven are visible to the eye in the southern sky below the Belt of Orion.