{"product_id":"debra-nangala-mcdonald-watiya-tjuta-2024-120x180cm-dddm24052","title":"Debra Nangala McDonald | 'Watiya Tjuta, 2024' | 120x180cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDDM24052\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e Debra Nangala McDonald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e Watiya Tjuta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArea:\u003c\/strong\u003e Papunya, NT\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCommunity:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pintupi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120x180cm\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatiya Tjuta is Debra Nangala McDonald's central subject: the stand of mulga and acacia trees on her family's country near Lake MacDonald in the Gibson Desert. The trees were traditionally cut for spears, and the stand itself is the focus of a women's Dreaming passed down through her Pintupi family line. Where earlier generations of Papunya painters rendered this country in ochre and earth tones, McDonald has stripped the subject back to its bones, translating the rhythm of trunk and branch into a language of pure line and space that still carries the country intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDebra Nangala McDonald is a contemporary Pintupi painter working from Papunya, Northern Territory, and a member of one of the Western Desert's most significant artistic families. Her grandfather was Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi, a founding Papunya painter, and her mother Martha McDonald is also an established artist. Her principal subject is Watiya Tjuta, the stand of mulga and acacia trees on her family's country near Lake MacDonald in the Gibson Desert, trees traditionally used for making spears and the focus of a women's Dreaming. Where her forebears painted the subject in earth tones, McDonald has developed a markedly contemporary treatment: a severely reduced palette, often black and white or a single colour against ground, with rhythmic vertical tree forms and expanses of negative space that give the work a graphic, almost architectural presence. The result reads comfortably in a modern interior while remaining an unbroken transmission of inherited country and story, and she is regarded as one of the stronger contemporary voices to emerge from Papunya in recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67589078843625,"sku":"DDDM24052","price":4800.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDDM24052-_Debra_Nangala_Mcdonald-2024-Watiya_Tjuta-120x180cm-square-web.jpg?v=1790639496","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/debra-nangala-mcdonald-watiya-tjuta-2024-120x180cm-dddm24052","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}