PADDY STEWART TJAPALTJARRI AND PADDY JAPALJARRI SIMS

Estimate

18,000 - 25,000 AUD

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Description

Paddy Stewart Tjapaltjarri and Paddy Japaljarri Sims
YUENDUMU DOORSDOOR 1: YAPARRANJIKIRLI JUKURRPA (YOUNG BOYS DREAMING)DOOR 2: WATIJARRAKURLU TJUKURRPA (TWO MEN DREAMING)DOOR 3: WATIJARRAKURLU JUKURRPA (TWO MEN DREAMING)DOOR 4: PURLKA-PULKAKURLU JUKURRPA (OLD MEN DREAMING)DOOR 5: MUTURNAPARDUKURLU JUKURRPA (OLD WOMEN DREAMING)DOOR 6: WARKILYKAKURLU MANU YANKIRRIKIRLI JUKURRPA (BUSH TURKEY AND EMU DREAMING)DOOR 7: PWRDAKURLU MANU WANAKIJIKIRLI JUKURRPA (YAM AND BUSH TOMATO DREAMING)DOOR 8: YARLAKURLU JUKURRPA (BIG YAM DREAMING)DOOR 9: NGARLAJIYIKIRLI MANU YARLAKURLU JUKURRPA (SMALL YAM AND BIG YAM DREAMING)DOOR 10: NGARLKIRDIKIRLI JUKURRPA (WITCHETTY GRUB DREAMING)DOOR 11: KARNTAKURLU JUKURRPA (WOMEN DREAMING)DOOR 12: KARNTAKURLU JUKURRPA (WOMEN DREAMING)DOOR 13: KARNTAKURLU MANU WARNAKURLU JUKURRPA (WOMEN AND SNAKE DREAMING)DOOR 14: KARNTAKURLU MANU WARLAWURRUKURLU JUKURRPA (WOMEN AND WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE DREAMING)DOOR 15: WARLAWURRUKURLU JUKURRPA (WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE DREAMING)DOOR 16: WARLAWURRUKURLU JUKURRPA (WEDGE-TAILED EAGLE DREAMING) DOOR 17: NGATIJIRRIKIRLI JUKURRPA (BUDGERIGAR DREAMING)DOOR 18: NGATIJIRRIKIRLI JUKURRPA (BUDGERIGAR DREAMING)DOOR 19: JANGANPAKURLU MANU JAJIRDIKIRLI JUKURRPA (POSSUM AND NATIVE CAT DREAMING)DOOR 20: JANGANPAKURLU JUKURRPA (POSSUM DREAMING)DOOR 21: MARLUJARRAKURLU JUKURRPA (TWO KANGAROO DREAMING)DOOR 22: YURRAMPIKIRLI JUKURRPA (HONEY ANT DREAMING)DOOR 23: YURRAMPIKIRLI JUKURRPA (HONEY ANT DREAMING)DOOR 24: YURRAMPIKIRLI MANU WAKAPARTARIKIRLI JUKURRPA (HONEY ANT AND MULGA WORM DREAMING)DOOR 25: YURRAMPIKIRLI MANU JIJILYAKUKURLU JUKURRPA (HONEY ANT AND DUCK DREAMING)DOOR 26: WARNAKURLU JUKURRPA (SNAKE DREAMING)DOOR 27: NGAPAKURLU JUKURRPA (RAIN DREAMING)DOOR 28: NGAPAKURLU JUKURRPA (RAIN DREAMING)DOOR 29: YIWARRAKURLU JUKURRPA (MILKY WAY DREAMING)DOOR 30: WANGARLAKURLU, JANGANPAKURLU MANU PARRAKURLU JUKURRPA (CROW, POSSUM AND DAWN DREAMING)
All numbered in pencil lower left, door number lower centre, doors 1-14, 18-25 and 28 signed 'PS' lower right, doors 15-17, 26-27 and 29-30 bear artist's mark lower right
Etching, edition 54/75
Largest: 18.5 by 8.2 cm Smallest: 18.2 by 6.8 cm

Provenance

Printed by Northern Editions, Darwin in 2000-01 for Warlukurlangu Artists, Yuendumu
Corporate collection

Literature

Perkins, H. et al. (eds.), One Sun One Moon: Aboriginal Art in Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2007, pp.200-201, Doors 1,3,4,11,20,17,26,27,30 illus.

Condition

This set of etchings is sold in a custom-made, linen-covered box. The etchings are very good condition overall with no marks, tears or creases.
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Catalogue Note

A series of 30 etchings based on the Yuendumu School Doors paintings made at Yuendumu, Northern Territory, by the two surviving artists who painted the original school doors in 1983. See Warlukurlangu Artists, Kuruwarri: Yuendumu Doors, Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra, 1987

In this series of etchings Paddy Stewart and Paddy Sims have reinterpreted the Jukurrpa (Dreamings) painted on to the original school doors. The Yuendumu School Door project was devised by the headmaster, Terry Davis, in consultation with the senior Warlpiri men to make the school 'look less "European" ... by paint(ing) the school doors with traditional designs (E. Michaels in Warlukurlangu Artists 1987, p.135). The school doors were painted with kuruwarri (men's traditional designs) by Larry Jungurrayi Spencer (1919–90), Paddy Japaljarri Sims, Paddy Jupurrurla Nelson (1920–98), Roy Jupurrurla Curtis and Paddy Japaljarri Stewart, with the help of some of the schoolchildren. The thirty doors bear twentyseven separate Jukurrpa to which all members of the community had an ancestrally-inherited association.

The painting of the doors was an affirmation of the Warlpiri's cultural strength, and it also allowed the men to work on a scale with which they were accustomed, in relation to the size of ceremonial ground paintings.

The anthropologist Eric Michaels, who was conducting research among the Warlpiri at Yuendumu at the time, saw the painted doors as a major accomplishment for 'contemporary international art as well as an achievement in indigenous culture' and 'these doors seemed to strike a chord with issues and images that were being negotiated in the art galleries of Sydney, Paris and New York' (ibid. 1987:135). The doors project also acted as a catalyst for male Warlpiri artists to approach the public art domain with paintings of substance, ie. on a large scale, in which they had the physical space to elaborate complex ancestral episodes, rather than on the small canvasboards which, they felt, restricted them to details of narratives. Within two years of the School Door project, Warlukurlangu Artists cooperative was established to serve the Warlpiri artists' needs and to promote their work in the public domain. The original doors are now housed at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide.

This set of etchings is sold with 30 accompanying Warlukurlangu Artists certificates