Tjaapa Tnyamaatja (Witchetty Grub), 2016, Rahel Kngwarriya
Earthenware, 14cm x 14cm
Provenance: Gifted.
Rahel Ungwanaka is one of the founding members of and a senior artist at the Hermannsburg Potters in the Northern Territory. Her work is known for her painting style: quirky and irreverent, and her electrifying depictions of the Western MacDonnell landscape, with its associated fish and honey ant Dreamings. The legacy of her late husband, the Lutheran pastor and senior law man Nahasson Ungwanaka, who wanted to reintroduce pottery to the local people, lives on through her pieces (1).