Description
This painting shows the Yalka Dreaming (bush onion) which is situated in a place called Analy, close to Town Bore Outstation. Bush onions grow after the rain and are collected by all the women. The yalka are found underneath the surface and can be eaten raw or cooked in the hot sand next to the campfire. Paintings referring to this Dreaming show diverse motifs such as plants, leaves, seeds, layers or roots.
Yalka Tjukurrpa at Analy. Jillian’s mother and artist Anmanari Napanangka Nolan told her to start painting this story. This is the Dreaming and country of her father, Lionel Kantawarra Tjupurrula. Lionel was a Kukatja (Western Australia) man, born in 1932. He lived at Haasts Bluff in the mid 1980s and painted intermittently for Papunya Tula Artists (NT). He passed away in 1988. Lionel painted his own Yalka Tjukurrpa (Bush onion Dreaming).
Yalka – Bush Onion
Size
23 × 23 cm (image), 28 × 38 cm (paper)
Medium
Ink on Paper
Catalog no
22-pb202-10_10
Category
$300
Description
This painting shows the Yalka Dreaming (bush onion) which is situated in a place called Analy, close to Town Bore Outstation. Bush onions grow after the rain and are collected by all the women. The yalka are found underneath the surface and can be eaten raw or cooked in the hot sand next to the campfire. Paintings referring to this Dreaming show diverse motifs such as plants, leaves, seeds, layers or roots.
Yalka Tjukurrpa at Analy. Jillian’s mother and artist Anmanari Napanangka Nolan told her to start painting this story. This is the Dreaming and country of her father, Lionel Kantawarra Tjupurrula. Lionel was a Kukatja (Western Australia) man, born in 1932. He lived at Haasts Bluff in the mid 1980s and painted intermittently for Papunya Tula Artists (NT). He passed away in 1988. Lionel painted his own Yalka Tjukurrpa (Bush onion Dreaming).