This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and water soakage site of Marrapinti, situated in a creek, west of Pollock Hills.  A group of women of the Nangala and Napangati kinship subsections, represented by the 'U' shapes, camped at this site during their travels further east.  While at the site, the women made nose bones, also known as marrapinti, which are worn the the hole made in the nose web.  These nose bones were originally used by both men and women but are now only inserted by the older generation on ceremonial occasions.  The women also performed the ceremonies associated with the area.

COLLECTIONS:

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory

Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art

Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies

Artbank

The Holmes a Court Collection

The Private Collection of Steve Martin

AWARDS

Finalist, 2001 National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards

EXHIBITIONS 

2020 'ORIGINS, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Smith Davidson Collection, SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2019 Defining Tradition: the first wave & its disciples, Kate Owen Gallery, Sydney

2014/2015 ‘ART & INTERIOR Modern Aboriginal Art', Marcel Wolterinck, Laren, The Netherlands

2011 ‘Papuya Tula Women’s Art’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, Australia

2010 ‘Tradition and Innovation’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia

2007 Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Australia

2005 Découvrir, Rêver, Investir, Australian Embassy, Paris France

2005 ‘Pintupi Artists’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Australia

2004 Peintres Pintupi, Galerie DAD, Mantes-la-Jolie, France

2003 ‘Kintore and Kiwirrkura Women Artists’, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia

2002 ‘Twenty Five Years Papunya Tula’, School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia

2002 ‘Twenty Five Years and Beyond - Papunya Tula’, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia

2002 ‘Papunya Tula Painting’, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

2001 ‘Papunya Tula Painting’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Australia

2000 ‘Pintupi Women’, Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Australia

1999 ‘Papunya Tula Painting’, Flinders University Museum of Art, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

1999 Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, Australia