Vue Yubu Napa Shopper Bag Gwenda Turner Nungurrayi in Sand Dunes

Features:

• Drop handle
• Reusable bag
• Can be folded up or stored

About the artist:

Gwenda Turner Nungurrayi is a Warlpiri woman from Yuelumu (Mt Allen) to the North of Alice Springs. Her mother is the renowned artist Maureen Nampitjinpa Hudson. Gwenda paints stories associated with her homeland and is known for her Sandhill artworks, made up with wavy lines of precise dots which create a flowing depiction of these important sand dunes. There is an abundance of bush foods and water to be found around these sand dunes, and the information about what to find and where to find it is passed on from one generation to the next.

Gwenda also paints intricate depictions of Budgerigar Dreaming, Bush Onion and Women's Ceremony.

The inspiration for Sand Dunes is Sandhill country that dominates Gwendas home at Yuelamu (Mt Allen) to the North West of Alice Springs in the Tanami region. Known as Tali in most Central Australian Aboriginal language groups, these Sandhills are set in parallel rows depending on the direction of the winds that have formed them. The valleys between these dunes can be either very productive and support a wider range of edible plants, medicine, and wildlife. Other areas can be remarkably barren, depending on the amount of water that has built up here and the quality of the soil.

Knowledge of these vast areas of sandy country is an integral part of day to day living in this rugged environment. Being rather high, it is often impossible to see what kind of country lies beyond each hill. The elders of these areas are custodians of vast amounts of knowledge as to where to find food, water, medicine and shelter and this knowledge is passed down from generation to generation. This area is known by the traditional owners of this land to be a place of many rock holes and underground water sources.