Elizabeth Nyumi
Pawalla 2006
acrylic on linen
90 x 60 cm
no. 8601
SOLD

Provenance: Warlayirti Artists, Balgo #419/06

Elizabeth Nyumi Nungurrayi is represented in the National Gallery of Victoria, as well as numerous important collections including The Holmes a Court Collection and Artbank. 

This painting depicts the country of Elizabeth's birth known as Pawalla, the The Great Sandy Desert. A variety of the landscape and food is shown here, including goanna, known as widdoga, and snake, known as wanna. There are people, the brown U shapes, with coolamon full of food, while the majority of the painting and the landscape it depicts - is dominated by sand dunes, or talis.