"Grandmother's Country & Seven Sisters Dreaming" By Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi & Michelle Possum Nungurrayi

Artist: Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi & Michelle Possum Nungurrayi

Size (H x W): 165 x 200 cm

This Painting combines 2 of the Possum families most famous dreaming’s.
Grandmother’s Country which are painted in very warm colours – you’ll see pinks, mauves, burnt reds and warm greys. The artists have used the iconography that indicated how people used the land. It was a rich resource for food and medicinal plants. Then in a spiritual context they have laid out the symbols to sit across the Country, giving the meaning and context of that part of the land in the painting.
As well as the extraordinary Seven Sisters Dreaming story. The Pleiades story is about a group of sisters taking off from the land and heading off into the sky. They are being pursued by an older man who’s seeking a wife among one of the sisters, but he is the wrong skin group. It’s a constant drama that’s played out every night in the Australian night sky. The famous Seven Sisters story is widely told by Aboriginal communities right across Australia. This star group sits very low on the horizon and rises just after dark every evening.
It’s an interesting tension between looking upwards into the heavens and looking downwards at the land spreading out before us.

About the Artists – Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi & Michelle Possum Nungurrayi

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi is a highly respected Anmatyerre artist from Mount Allan. Daughter of Clifford Possum, she paints women’s Dreamings and ceremonial stories, with her renowned Seven Sisters artworks shown around the world

Michelle Possum Nungurrayi, daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, paints women's Dreaming stories filled with sacred symbols, places, and ceremonial knowledge, continuing a powerful family legacy in Aboriginal art.