Artist: Martha Nakamarra Poulson
Title: Ngurlu Jukurrpa (Native Seed Dreaming)
Area: N.T
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 30cm x 30cm
Native Seed Dreaming

Certificate of Authenticity included with painting
Unstretched

Artwork: Lukarrara is a species of Fimbristylis. A grass that bears edible seeds in the winter-time. The seeds are traditionally ground on a large stone (‘puturlu’) with a small stone (‘ngalikirri’) to make flour.

This flour is mixed with water (‘ngapa’) to make small seed cakes. In contemporary Warlpiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements.

In paintings of this Jukurrpa large concentric circles are used to represent Jaralypari and dots surrounding these circles are often depicting the ‘ngurlu’.