Wuntupayi Jane Gimme | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Wuntupayi Jane Gimme. - click to view larger image

born 1958, Kukatja language group, Nungurrayi skin group, Balgo community, Warlayirti Artists

Born at Tjumuntura, near the old Balgo mission, Jane is the eldest of Eubena (Yupinya) Nampitjin’s surviving daughters.

Jane learned from her mother the stories of her Country and the ways of painting it. She is an active artist in her own right and more than once has been elected chairperson of Warlayirti Artists.

A yellow toned textured painting on brown linen with a vertical line of six small red-pink circles down the centre. Most of the painting has vertical uneven stripes in yellow with pink, dark pink and white thin lines between. The right side has a shorter line of six red circles at the top and a rectangular shape at the bottom corner with pink and orange uneven vertical stripes and a red circle above it. In the middle section next to the line of red circles is a long round ended concentric line with rows of red, yellow, white and pink inside. On the left side there is a vertical line of four joined outlined shapes with uneven stripes in them in yellow with pink, white and orange thinner lines. At the bottom edge is an apricot coloured section. - click to view larger image — *Kinyu*

A rectangular painting on brown linen with a red circle at the top right and three smaller concentric circles in red and beige on a yellow and beige dotted ground, above interconnected lines of red filled with yellow-orange. The lines and circles are edged with white dots. There are two circles in the lower portion of the picture in red and beige. - click to view larger image — *Witji Rock Holes*

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