Untitled, 2015, Nora Wompi
Acrylic on canvas, 61cm x 91cm
Provenance: Paul Johnstone Gallery, Darwin.
Nora Wompi grew up in the traditional nomadic life in the desert, primarily north and east of Punmu and Kunawarritji communities. She stayed with her family until she was able to hunt for herself, but eventually decided that she, like many of her relatives, would leave the desert. Wompi and her husband began painting together in the early days of Balgo’s Warlayirti Artists. She paints evocative works of the country around her homelands of Kunawarritji, a place associated with the Minyipuru Jukurrpa (seven sister dreaming). Her work includes intricate tracings of familiar country and painterly strokes of bold colour: passionate outpourings of her deep love of the spirit and physical being of her country (1).