Ngoia
Napaltjarri Pollard
Luritja (born 1947)
Swamps West of Nyrippi, My Father’s Country, 2006
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
120 x 65 cm
Provenance
Watiyawanu Artists of Amunturrungu, Mt Liebig, NT, cat.no.10-06117; accompanied
by original certificate of authenticity
Private Collection, Denmark
Exhibited
Knud Grothe Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006; accompanied by a photograph
of the artist in situ, holding the work. The artist was painter in residence,
along with Lilly Kelly Napangardi, in April 2006.
Documentation reads
Ngoia Pollard paints her father’s country. This country is sacred
Warlpiri territory. This region is charged with the spiritual presence
of the ‘water snake’ which lives beneath the surface and Ngoia
describes this as being dangerous. Ngoia depicts the wet and dry characteristics
of this country. The oval shapes in Ngoia’s paintings are iconographic
representatives of the swamps and lakes near Nyirrpi (Talarada) North
West of Mt Liebig where Ngoia lives.