Selina Napaltjarri

Central Australia

Junganpa

Acrylic on canvas
16.25" x 28.875 "
Price: $805.00 USD

Stock # AMI-1032-01

Background

An emerging and talented young artist with a very delicate style, Selina Napaljarri is the granddaughter of well-known artist Polly Napangardi Watson. Born in Yuendumu circa 1964, Selina now lives in Alice Springs and has three children. She has inherited the rights and responsibilities for several Dreamings associated with the country around Chilla Well towards the Western Australian border through her grandfather.

Her paintings from the mid-1980's, possessed a formal structure of well-defined iconography, explored a wide range of color and utilized a striking multi-layered technique which had been used to capture the vastness of the Central Desert landscape as well as the transformation that occurs during the change of seasons.

More recently, Selina's work has become distinctively monochromatic in its palette and more sophisticated in its style. Her paintings are now highlighted by a visually captivating maze of delicately woven, white-dotted sinuous lines, against either a red or black background, all of which are associated with her Jungunpa (Marsupial Mouse) Dreaming.