Alma Nungurrayi Granites

Born into a family of great painters, Alma Nungurrayi Granites is a Warlpiri woman who lives at and works at Yuendumu and is known for her majestical renderings of the night sky. Alma is custodian of the Seven Sisters Dreaming. This cluster of seven stars which comprise the constellation Taurus, known also The Pleiades, represents seven sisters of the Napaljarri skin group. Jukurra, the morning star, is a Jakamarra man who was in love with the seven sisters, and chased them across the night sky. In a final attempt to escape from him, the sisters turned themselves into fire and ascended to the heavens to become stars.

Her work has been successfully placed in the Holmes a Court Collection, the Burkhardt-Felder Museum of Switzerland and the ARTCOL Collection of Seattle.

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