Biography

b. 1995 Alice Springs Nathania Nangala Granites is a Warlpiri artist from Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. She has painted with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation since 2011. Her work continues Jukurrpa passed through her father and grandmother, including Water Dreaming, Fire Country Dreaming and Seven Sisters / Star Dreaming. Dreaming & Country: Ngapa Jukurrpa / Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa Nathania paints her father’s Ngapa Jukurrpa, or Water Dreaming, and Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa, or Fire Country Dreaming. She also paints her grandmother’s Yanjirlpirri / Napaljarri-Warnu Jukurrpa, known as Star Dreaming or Seven Sisters Dreaming. Style and Technique Nathania works within the Warlukurlangu painting tradition, using dotting, mapped sites and connecting pathways to carry Jukurrpa across the canvas. Her Water and Fire Country works often use repeated movement and strong colour fields to describe rain, fire, Country and ancestral travel. Nathania’s Palette Nathania works with the strong contemporary palette associated with Warlukurlangu painting, often using reds, oranges, yellows, blues, greens, whites and darker grounds. Colour is used to separate story, site and surrounding Country. For the Collector Nathania Nangala Granites paints through Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, the Aboriginal-owned art centre at Yuendumu. Her practice is centred on Warlpiri Jukurrpa inherited through her father and grandmother, with recurring subjects including Ngapa Jukurrpa / Water Dreaming, Warlukurlangu Jukurrpa / Fire Country Dreaming and Yanjirlpirri / Seven Sisters Dreaming.