Polly Napangardi Watson

Northern Territory, Australia

Junganpa

Acrylic on canvas
50.5" x 15.875 "
Price: $1,425.00 USD

Stock # AMI-1020-01

Wataki (Bush Orange)

Acrylic on canvas
23.875" x 12"
Price: $495.00 USD

Stock # AMI-1021-01

Wataki (Bush Orange)

Acrylic on canvas
24" x 12"
Price: $495.00 USD

Stock # AMI-1022-01

Background

Polly Napangardi Watson is a Warlpiri artist working in an inventive and dynamic style unlike that of any other artist from the Yuendumu region. She emerged as a significant painter very early in her painting career, which began in 1987. She has been represented in major international exhibitions since 1990 and her works have been acquired by public and private collections both in Australia and internationally.

Polly's backgrounds of ochre tones and squiggly lines of the kurruwarri (the iconography of her dreaming) are in keeping with the traditional Warlpiri style of painting. But what sets her apart as a contemporary artist is her intricate layering of dots, which create shimmering surfaces reminiscent of pointalist painters. Her delicate works contain a minimalist iconography representing an aerial view of the land.

Jungunpa (marsupial mouse), Ngurlu (Black seed), Wataki ( Wild Desert Orange) and other important Jukurrpa (Dreamings) from her traditional country are the central themes of her paintings. Her kurrawarri hover and float above the ground she is painting.