Pauline Sunfly Nangala
Aug 2021
IN ASSOCIATION WITH WARLAYIRTI ARTS
PAUL JOHNSTONE GALLERY
2/2 Harriet Place
Darwin
OPENING HOURS
Tues to Fri 10 am – 5 pm
Sat 10 am – 2 pm
Pauline Sunfly paints her parents’ Country, her ancestral places south of her home at Balgo (Wirrimanu), which borders both the Tanami Desert and the Great Sandy Desert in northern Western Australia. Her striking paintings depict ancestral paths, ceremonial designs and the stories of important Tjukurrpa sites associated with the native cat, goanna and kingfisher. They are reimaginings of deep cultural knowledge painted with a unique contemporary expression.
Nangala was a feature artist in the 2019 Tarnanthi exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Her works are held in many private and public collections.
IMAGE: Pauline Sunfly Nangala Untitled (detail), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 81 x 183 cm, 556-20
PHOTOGRAPHY BY FIONA MORRISON
Pauline Sunfly Nangala on country. IMAGE COURTESY WARLAYIRTI ARTISTS
Selected paintings
The full exhibition can be viewed on the Paul Johnstone Gallery website.
