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Click to view a selection of artworks chosen by exhibition curator Hetti Perkins

 
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Highlights

The revolution in bark painting over the last century can be traced through depictions of Ngalyod, the revered ancestral creative being, whose supreme presence is infused in the region as the creator and protector of all Djang (sacred sites). Ngalyod’s metamorphic ability has inspired a visual lexicon that captures the figure’s muscular power and authority in serpentine twists and turns, gradually dissolving into a radiating geometric field. Ngalyod is associated with many sites and its presence is indicated through the presence of waterlilies.


Jimmy Njiminjuma
Ngalyod, the rainbow serpent c.1985
natural pigments on bark
148.5 x 55 cm
Purchased 1989
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

 

 

 
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