Framed - The Darwin Gallery

About Artwork:

Indigenous Australian artist Andrea Nungarrayi Martin was born in 1965 in Yuendumu, a remote Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory of Australia. Her father Samson Japaljarri Martin was one of the founding members of Warlukurlangu Artists, and her mother was Uni Nampijinpa Martin, also a renowned artist. Andrea began working at the Art Centre at the request of the Committee while she was still at school, and worked there for 20 years. Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation is an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre in Yuendumu. Andrea paints her father?s Jukurrpa stories, Dreamings which related directly to her land, featuring the plants and animals that inhabit it. These stories were passed down by her father and his father?s father before them. Andrea uses traditional iconography, developing an individualistic style to depict her traditional Jukurrpa. Andrea has been exhibiting in group exhibitions since 1990, and had a solo exhibition in 2008.