Ngangkari Ngura (Healing Country)
2022
- Medium
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 290.0 × 494.3 cm
- Place/s of Execution
- Indulkana, South Australia
- Accession Number
- 2022.872
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Barbara Hay and the Hay Family, Rosemary and Nora Merralls, Christopher Thomas AM and Cheryl Thomas, D'Lan Davidson and Rachel Jacobs, Margaret Lodge and Terry Murphy KC, and donors to the 2022 NGV Indigenous Art Dinner, 2022
© Betty Muffler & Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Melbourne - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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A highly respected senior artist, Betty Muffler lives and works at Iwantja, on the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. Her paintings are representations of Country, aligned with her birthplace, Yalungu (south of Waturru in South Australia), which is associated with emu tjukurpa (ancestral creation story) and informed by the Walawuru (eagle) tjukurpa, which she inherited from her father. This conceptual map is painted from a bird’s-eye perspective. Epic in scale, Muffler aligns her eye with the perspective of the eagle, creating an expansive representation of her Country, with its many sacred waterholes and waterways.