My Mother's Country
Exhibitions & Events
Installation view of Yukultji Napangati’s “Women’s Ceremonies at Marrapinti” (2015). Synthetic polymer paint on canvas
“My mother’s country, Marrapinti, that’s what I paint about. The ancestors were coming this way and they entered the place called Wilkinkarra [Lake Mackay]. I paint that, and the places Ngaminya, Wirrulnga. They traveled and arrived at Lake Mackay from Yunala. Yunala is the place of bush-potato Dreaming. The ancestors would dig them up and eat them—my mother’s country.” –Yukultji Napangati
This work is on view in Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia through September 9, 2018.
