{"product_id":"walangkura-napanangka-my-country-2009-45x150cm","title":"Walangkura Napanangka | 'My Country, 2009' | 45x150cm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCode:\u003c\/strong\u003e DDWN09001\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist:\u003c\/strong\u003e walangkura napanangka\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTitle:\u003c\/strong\u003e My Country\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedium:\u003c\/strong\u003e Acrylic On Canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 45x150cm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYear:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2009\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross this elongated canvas, the land unfolds as a sequence of swelling forms — concentric rings that rise like hills, soaks, and gathering places along a horizon banded with strata of ochre, cream and burnt sienna. \u003cstrong\u003eMy Country\u003c\/strong\u003e is a panoramic reading of place, where the eye travels west to east across a terrain held together by rhythm and repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe upper register reads almost as a map's edge: long parallel lines suggest sandhills or travelling tracks, dotted with smaller roundels that mark sites strung along the route. Below, a row of clustered circles sits like a chain of waterholes or camps, each ringed in pale dotting that catches against the deep red ground. The lower half is dominated by five great \u003cem\u003etali\u003c\/em\u003e-like domes, vast concentric forms that may be read as significant sites, rockholes, or the bodies of ancestral country itself, each one breathing outward in layered bands of cream, gold and rust.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat gives the work its pulse is the hand of the dotting. The lines are not mechanical; they swell, contract, and occasionally break, so that each ring feels walked rather than drawn. The palette is held to the earth, the iron-red of desert sand, the yellow of spinifex country after rain, the bone-white of dry creek beds and refuses any decorative flourish that would pull it away from the ground it describes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Walangkura Napanangka, painting \u003cem\u003emy country\u003c\/em\u003e is an act of return and of holding: a way of carrying the shape of her homelands onto canvas so that the sites, the travelling lines between them, and the relationships that bind them remain legible. The horizontal sweep of this work invites the viewer to read it the way country is known, not at a glance, but step by step, site by site, across distance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamtime Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51221268791529,"sku":"DDWN09001","price":9995.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0769\/0993\/6873\/files\/DDWN09001-Walangkura_Napanangka-2009-My_Country-45x150-1_web2000.jpg?v=1781154273","url":"https:\/\/cag.art\/products\/walangkura-napanangka-my-country-2009-45x150cm","provider":"Canberra Art Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}