Maureen Nampajimpa

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57 x 104 cm, 2003. ID:MNJ2

Maureen Nampajimpa

Artist: Maureen Nampajimpa

Language Group: Warlpiri

Home: Mount Allan/Adelaide

Country of Story: Warlukurlongu

Date of Birth: 1959

Dreaming: Fire, water, watiya, wanu.

Price: SOLD

Maureen's painting is of Warlukurlongu, the fire dreaming story west of Yuendumu, where the blue-tongue lizard man set the
bush alight with his flashing tongue, and sent the flames after his two sons.

They had killed and eaten a sacred kangaroo, in direct violation of the law, so had to be punished. Depicted are the whirling flames which the blue-tongue set upon his sons.


The brothers fled as far south as Ernabella in South Australia, then turned north for home as the flames still pursued them. As they neared their home the flames consumed them. Paintings like these are telling of the creation of the land, and also lay out the rules for living, and before the adaption of acrylic paint and canvas were (and still are) enacted on ceremonial ground paintings.

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