{"product_id":"debra-nangala-mcdonald-watiya-tjuta-mulga-trees-2024-120x180cm","title":"Debra Nangala McDonald | 'Watiya Tjuta-Mulga Trees, 2024' | 120x180cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDDM24053\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-Mulga Trees\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 Linen\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, the mulga and acacia trees of Debra Nangala McDonald's family country near Lake MacDonald in the Gibson Desert, is her principal and recurring subject. The trees were used for spear making and sit at the centre of a women's Dreaming passed down through her Pintupi family line. Where earlier generations rendered the stand of trees in ochre and earth tones, McDonald has stripped the subject back to pattern and silhouette, treating the same inherited country through a contemporary, graphic eye.\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":67914720444649,"sku":"DDDM24053","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDDM24053-Debra_Nangla_Mcdonald-2024-Watiya_Tjuta-Mulga_Trees-120x180cm-square-web.jpg?v=1794262540","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/debra-nangala-mcdonald-watiya-tjuta-mulga-trees-2024-120x180cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}