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Kathleen Paddoon
Nakarra Nakarra, 2003

Nakarra Nakarra

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Screenprint, printed in red white and black ink, from three stencils.
Edition: 40/50
75.5 × 56cm (sheet)
Published by Warlayirti Artists.
 

Kathleen Paddoon has depicted some important country for her family, which is south of Balgo in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is named Nakarra Nakarra and is one of the sites of the Seven Sisters Dreaming, a story about seven sisters who travel the ancestral landscape running from an old man who wants to marry the youngest. At Nakarra Nakarra a group of hills embody the seven sisters. The circle depicted represents a tjurrnu (soakwater) and the red blocks of colour show the women dancing.

 
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In her formative years Kathleen walked around the country south of Yakka Yakka with her mother, father, brother and uncle. This included Mangkayi, her father’s country, and Ngantalarra and Nakarra Nakarra her mother’s country. They also travelled to Gordon Downs Station for rations of tea, sugar, flour, and tobacco. Kathleen commenced painting in the late 1980s and in 2002 began to emerge as a significant artist gaining recognition for her predominately red and white paintings of Nakarra Nakarra (Seven Sisters’ Tjukurrpa) and the country associated with this story. She was the senior Law woman and custodian of the Nakarra Nakarra (Seven Sisters’ Dreaming) songs and ceremonies from the country south of Yakka Yakka.

 
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