Waramutamunji (the Creator) Directors Choice 2016 Alice depicts her Tjukurrpa (Dreaming)

Alice depicts her Tjukurrpa (Dreaming) and ancestral country with bold

Wire and Acrylic Yarn

trying in vain to wake up his brother

an evocation of Paris rather than a picture perfect postcard view

Image size: 16 x 8cm

Waramutamunji (the Creator) Directors Choice 2016 Alice depicts her Tjukurrpa (Dreaming)Size: 200 x 250cm acrylic on canvas Christine Christophersens painting Waramutamunji (the Creator) draws on an important creation story from her clan in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. The central figure, Waramutamunji is a powerful ancestral creator woman in Arnhem Land cosmology. Waramutamunji is an ancestral being who travelled across the land shaping country, creating people, establishing kinship systems, and giving law and social structure