Acrylic on Linen

The artist Helen Nungarrayi Reed was born in 1971 in Hass Bluff, a community located 227 km west of Alice Springs in the Norther Territory of Australia. She grew up in Kintore, a small Aboriginal community.

She is the granddaughter of the late Makinti Napanangka, one of the pioneering female artists of Papunya Tula Artists. Helen paints the site of Lupul, where her grandmother was born. The Jukurrpa associated with Lupul is the journey of two ancestral women. Helen is incredibly proud to paint her grandmother story and is inspired by the patterns of hairstring skirts that were a constant symbol in Napanangka's work.

Helen has painted a Jukurrpa (dreaming) related to water. This story is associated to a rock-hole site, Lupul south of Kintore. The Jukurrpa tells the story of the rainbow serpent travelling through the country creating large storms, with the storms the land flourishes creating the flora and fauna.