{"title":"POLLY NGALE","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"polly-ngale-bush-plum-2","title":"POLLY NGALE - Bush Plum","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY NGALE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: BUSH PLUM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eACRYLIC ON LINEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e88CM x125CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING AND A PHOTO WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#PN148\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eDOB: c.1940 – 21 August 2022. Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eKnown as: Polly Nangala, Polly Ngale, Polly Nelson Nangala, Polly Nelson Ngale, Polly Nungala, Polly Ngal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre \/ Alyawarre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eDreamings: Awelye (women's ceremony and body paint designs) \u0026amp; Bush Plum (Arnwetky)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolly was among the last of a generation of Utopia women elders, and held deep custodial responsibility for her country, Alparra\/Ahalpere. She shared this country, and the Bush Plum (Arnwetky) Dreaming tied to it, with her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike many Utopia women of her generation, Polly's artistic life started with batik on silk in the late 1970s, part of a broader movement where the women of Utopia began putting their cultural knowledge into a new visual language. By the late 1980s she'd moved onto acrylic on canvas and linen, and it was here that her painting really found its own voice a build-up of colour, layer over layer, that gave her work a shimmering, almost weather-like quality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer paintings speak to Bush Plum and Awelye, and through them she carried forward ceremonial knowledge and body-painting traditions handed down through generations of Anmatyerre women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver her career, Polly's work travelled well beyond Utopia shown in Sydney (1989), Paris (2004, 2018), Tokyo (2008, alongside Emily Kame Kngwarreye), New York (2018), and Brisbane (2021), and named a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Today her paintings sit in major public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Holmes à Court Collection, and the World Bank's collection in Washington DC.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEven as her eyesight failed badly in her final years, Polly kept painting her connection to the practice held right through to her passing in 2022.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis painting was purchased directly from Polly and comes with a gallery certificate of authenticity along with a photo of Polly holding the finished work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"POLLY NGALE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40421095735341,"sku":"PN148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/9130\/6797\/products\/PN148.jpg?v=1647069568"},{"product_id":"polly-ngale-bush-plum-9","title":"POLLY NGALE - Bush Plum","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY NGALE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: BUSH PLUM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eACRYLIC ON LINEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e93CM x 118CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING AND A PHOTO WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#PN165\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDOB: c.1940 – 21 August 2022. Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDreamings: Bush Plum (Anwekety), Awelye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly Ngale (Ngal) was one of the senior women of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. Her country is Alparra, and she carried responsibility for it alongside her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle. The Bush Plum Dreaming belonged to the three of them together.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer working life in art began with batik in the late 1970s, when the women of Utopia started putting their knowledge into wax and dye on silk. The community moved across to acrylic about ten years later, and from 1989 Polly was painting on Belgian linen. That is where her own hand arrived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe built a painting up in passes rather than laying it down in one go, dotting over dots until the colour underneath glowed through the colour on top. The result is a surface that shifts as you look at it. Those dots carry the fruit, the seed and the flower of the bush plum, along with the Awelye designs that belong with it. She and Kathleen often worked side by side. Polly's eyesight faded in her later years. She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. The plant works as medicine as well, the orange inner bark of the roots soaked and used as a wash, particularly for skin and for sore eyes. The Dreaming for it is a story about wind. Winds blew in from every direction and carried the Anwekety seed out across the country of Polly's ancestors. The first plant grew, fruited and dropped seed of its own, and the wind carried those on again, until the conkerberry grew right through the Dreaming lands. Anmatyerre people hold up their side of it by singing and dancing for the plant so it keeps fruiting, and in recent generations painting has become part of how that is done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e - Women's ceremony, and the ochre designs that go on the body for it. Polly learned these as a young girl at ceremonies on her own country. Women sing and dance for country, for the health of people and for the land itself, and those same designs carry through into her canvases.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly was a finalist in the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, in 2003, and in 2021 she was a finalist in both the Calleen Art Award at Cowra and the Fisher's Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown. Her work travelled a long way from Utopia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings, The First Works on Canvas, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1990 Utopia, A Picture Story, eighty-eight silk batiks from the Holmes à Court Collection, toured Ireland and Scotland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2000 Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2002 Two Sisters, Kathleen and Polly Ngale, Melbourne\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2003 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Darwin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2004 Contemporary art fair, Grand Palais, Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2008 Emily Kame Kngwarreye and Her Legacy, Tokyo\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2018 Indigenous Australia: Masterworks from the National Gallery of Australia, me Collectors Room, Berlin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2018 Art Paris Art Fair, Grand Palais, Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2018 Beyond the Veil, New York\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCOLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNational Gallery of Australia, Canberra\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArt Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHolmes à Court Collection, Perth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Holt Collection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe World Bank, Washington DC\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis painting can be hung vertically or horizontally.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis painting was purchased directly from Polly and a gallery certificate of authenticity will be provided with the sale.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"POLLY NGALE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40571535851565,"sku":"PN165","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/9130\/6797\/products\/JM164a.jpg?v=1650679448"},{"product_id":"polly-ngale-bush-plum","title":"POLLY NGALE - Bush Plum","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY NGALE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: BUSH PLUM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eACRYLIC ON LINEN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e86CM x124CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING AND A PHOTO OF POLLY WITH HER PAINTING WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#PNN197\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDOB: c.1940 – 21 August 2022. Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDreamings: Bush Plum (Anwekety), Awelye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly Ngale (Ngal) was one of the senior women of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. Her country is Alparra, and she carried responsibility for it alongside her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle. The Bush Plum Dreaming belonged to the three of them together.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer working life in art began with batik in the late 1970s, when the women of Utopia started putting their knowledge into wax and dye on silk. The community moved across to acrylic about ten years later, and from 1989 Polly was painting on Belgian linen. That is where her own hand arrived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe built a painting up in passes rather than laying it down in one go, dotting over dots until the colour underneath glowed through the colour on top. The result is a surface that shifts as you look at it. Those dots carry the fruit, the seed and the flower of the bush plum, along with the Awelye designs that belong with it. She and Kathleen often worked side by side. Polly's eyesight faded in her later years. She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. The plant works as medicine as well, the orange inner bark of the roots soaked and used as a wash, particularly for skin and for sore eyes. The Dreaming for it is a story about wind. Winds blew in from every direction and carried the Anwekety seed out across the country of Polly's ancestors. The first plant grew, fruited and dropped seed of its own, and the wind carried those on again, until the conkerberry grew right through the Dreaming lands. Anmatyerre people hold up their side of it by singing and dancing for the plant so it keeps fruiting, and in recent generations painting has become part of how that is done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e - Women's ceremony, and the ochre designs that go on the body for it. Polly learned these as a young girl at ceremonies on her own country. Women sing and dance for country, for the health of people and for the land itself, and those same designs carry through into her canvases.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly was a finalist in the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, in 2003, and in 2021 she was a finalist in both the Calleen Art Award at Cowra and the Fisher's Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown. Her work travelled a long way from Utopia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings, The First Works on Canvas, S.H. 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Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre \/ Alyawarre\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eDreamings: Awelye (women's ceremony and body paint designs) \u0026amp; Bush Plum (Arnwetky)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolly was among the last of a generation of Utopia women elders, and held deep custodial responsibility for her country, Alparra\/Ahalpere. She shared this country, and the Bush Plum (Arnwetky) Dreaming tied to it, with her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike many Utopia women of her generation, Polly's artistic life started with batik on silk in the late 1970s, part of a broader movement where the women of Utopia began putting their cultural knowledge into a new visual language. By the late 1980s she'd moved onto acrylic on canvas and linen, and it was here that her painting really found its own voice a build-up of colour, layer over layer, that gave her work a shimmering, almost weather-like quality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eHer paintings speak to Bush Plum and Awelye, and through them she carried forward ceremonial knowledge and body-painting traditions handed down through generations of Anmatyerre women.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eOver her career, Polly's work travelled well beyond Utopia shown in Sydney (1989), Paris (2004, 2018), Tokyo (2008, alongside Emily Kame Kngwarreye), New York (2018), and Brisbane (2021), and named a finalist in the Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award. Today her paintings sit in major public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Holmes à Court Collection, and the World Bank's collection in Washington DC.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eEven as her eyesight failed badly in her final years, Polly kept painting her connection to the practice held right through to her passing in 2022.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis painting was purchased directly from Polly and comes with a gallery certificate of authenticity along with a photo of Polly holding the finished work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"POLLY NGALE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41052945154093,"sku":"PN209","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/9130\/6797\/products\/REF_PN209.jpg?v=1661386218"},{"product_id":"polly-ngale-bush-plum-flowers","title":"POLLY NGALE - Bush Plum Flowers","description":"\u003ch2 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY NGALE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTITLE: BUSH PLUM FLOWERS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eACRYLIC ON CANVAS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e70CM x 69CM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOLLY HAS SIGNED THE PAINTING AND A PHOTO OF POLLY WITH HER PAINTING WILL BE PROVIDED\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eREF#PNN248\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDOB: c.1940 – 21 August 2022. Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDreamings: Bush Plum (Anwekety), Awelye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly Ngale (Ngal) was one of the senior women of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. Her country is Alparra, and she carried responsibility for it alongside her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle. The Bush Plum Dreaming belonged to the three of them together.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer working life in art began with batik in the late 1970s, when the women of Utopia started putting their knowledge into wax and dye on silk. The community moved across to acrylic about ten years later, and from 1989 Polly was painting on Belgian linen. That is where her own hand arrived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe built a painting up in passes rather than laying it down in one go, dotting over dots until the colour underneath glowed through the colour on top. The result is a surface that shifts as you look at it. Those dots carry the fruit, the seed and the flower of the bush plum, along with the Awelye designs that belong with it. She and Kathleen often worked side by side. Polly's eyesight faded in her later years. She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. The plant works as medicine as well, the orange inner bark of the roots soaked and used as a wash, particularly for skin and for sore eyes. The Dreaming for it is a story about wind. Winds blew in from every direction and carried the Anwekety seed out across the country of Polly's ancestors. The first plant grew, fruited and dropped seed of its own, and the wind carried those on again, until the conkerberry grew right through the Dreaming lands. Anmatyerre people hold up their side of it by singing and dancing for the plant so it keeps fruiting, and in recent generations painting has become part of how that is done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e - Women's ceremony, and the ochre designs that go on the body for it. Polly learned these as a young girl at ceremonies on her own country. Women sing and dance for country, for the health of people and for the land itself, and those same designs carry through into her canvases.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly was a finalist in the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, in 2003, and in 2021 she was a finalist in both the Calleen Art Award at Cowra and the Fisher's Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown. Her work travelled a long way from Utopia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings, The First Works on Canvas, S.H. 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That is where her own hand arrived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe built a painting up in passes rather than laying it down in one go, dotting over dots until the colour underneath glowed through the colour on top. The result is a surface that shifts as you look at it. Those dots carry the fruit, the seed and the flower of the bush plum, along with the Awelye designs that belong with it. She and Kathleen often worked side by side. Polly's eyesight faded in her later years. She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. 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She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. The plant works as medicine as well, the orange inner bark of the roots soaked and used as a wash, particularly for skin and for sore eyes. The Dreaming for it is a story about wind. Winds blew in from every direction and carried the Anwekety seed out across the country of Polly's ancestors. The first plant grew, fruited and dropped seed of its own, and the wind carried those on again, until the conkerberry grew right through the Dreaming lands. Anmatyerre people hold up their side of it by singing and dancing for the plant so it keeps fruiting, and in recent generations painting has become part of how that is done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e - Women's ceremony, and the ochre designs that go on the body for it. Polly learned these as a young girl at ceremonies on her own country. 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Women sing and dance for country, for the health of people and for the land itself, and those same designs carry through into her canvases.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly was a finalist in the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, in 2003, and in 2021 she was a finalist in both the Calleen Art Award at Cowra and the Fisher's Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown. 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Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDreamings: Bush Plum (Anwekety), Awelye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly Ngale (Ngal) was one of the senior women of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. Her country is Alparra, and she carried responsibility for it alongside her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle. The Bush Plum Dreaming belonged to the three of them together.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer working life in art began with batik in the late 1970s, when the women of Utopia started putting their knowledge into wax and dye on silk. The community moved across to acrylic about ten years later, and from 1989 Polly was painting on Belgian linen. 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She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. The plant works as medicine as well, the orange inner bark of the roots soaked and used as a wash, particularly for skin and for sore eyes. The Dreaming for it is a story about wind. Winds blew in from every direction and carried the Anwekety seed out across the country of Polly's ancestors. The first plant grew, fruited and dropped seed of its own, and the wind carried those on again, until the conkerberry grew right through the Dreaming lands. Anmatyerre people hold up their side of it by singing and dancing for the plant so it keeps fruiting, and in recent generations painting has become part of how that is done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e - Women's ceremony, and the ochre designs that go on the body for it. Polly learned these as a young girl at ceremonies on her own country. 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Her work travelled a long way from Utopia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSELECTED EXHIBITIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1989 Utopia Women's Paintings, The First Works on Canvas, S.H. 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Utopia, Northern Territory\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage: Anmatyerre\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDreamings: Bush Plum (Anwekety), Awelye\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly Ngale (Ngal), was one of the senior women of Utopia, north-east of Alice Springs. Her country is Alparra, and she carried responsibility for it alongside her sisters Kathleen Ngale and Angeline Pwerle. The Bush Plum Dreaming belonged to the three of them together.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHer working life in art began with batik in the late 1970s, when the women of Utopia started putting their knowledge into wax and dye on silk. The community moved across to acrylic about ten years later, and from 1989 Polly was painting on Belgian linen. That is where her own hand arrived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe built a painting up in passes rather than laying it down in one go, dotting over dots until the colour underneath glowed through the colour on top. The result is a surface that shifts as you look at it. Those dots carry the fruit, the seed and the flower of the bush plum, along with the Awelye designs that belong with it. She and Kathleen often worked side by side. Polly's eyesight faded in her later years. She kept painting anyway, for the love of the work and for the stories that were hers to tell.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDREAMINGS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eBush Plum (Anwekety) \u003c\/span\u003e- The bush plum is the conkerberry, a low tangled shrub that carries thorns and grows right through Polly's country. After rain it puts out small white flowers with a strong scent, and the fruit follows. It comes on for only a few weeks in the year, ripening from green through to a sweet black berry about the size of a small plum, which is where the English name comes from. Women gather it hard in that short window, and what is not eaten fresh is dried, stored, then soaked in water again later to bring it back. The plant works as medicine as well, the orange inner bark of the roots soaked and used as a wash, particularly for skin and for sore eyes. The Dreaming for it is a story about wind. Winds blew in from every direction and carried the Anwekety seed out across the country of Polly's ancestors. The first plant grew, fruited and dropped seed of its own, and the wind carried those on again, until the conkerberry grew right through the Dreaming lands. Anmatyerre people hold up their side of it by singing and dancing for the plant so it keeps fruiting, and in recent generations painting has become part of how that is done.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eAwelye\u003c\/span\u003e - Women's ceremony, and the ochre designs that go on the body for it. Polly learned these as a young girl at ceremonies on her own country. Women sing and dance for country, for the health of people and for the land itself, and those same designs carry through into her canvases.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEXHIBITIONS AND COLLECTIONS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePolly was a finalist in the 20th Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin, in 2003, and in 2021 she was a finalist in both the Calleen Art Award at Cowra and the Fisher's Ghost Art Award at Campbelltown. 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