Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Alma Nungarrayi Granites

Alma Nungarrayi Granites (1955-2017), a Warlpiri woman, was an artist from Yuendumu, Australia.Nungarrayi Granites worked as a staff member at the local school and attended the Bachelor College, studying to become an accredited teacher assistant for both Warlpiri and English.Once she graduated, Nungarrayi Granites worked at the Yuendumu School assisting the Warlpiri classes.While working at the school, the artist became aware of the great efforts to maintain, share and preserve Warlpiri culture and traditions.Nungarrayi Granites herself became aware of the great efforts to maintain, share and preserve Warlpiri culture and traditions, and decided to attended courses run by the Old Peoples Program and Adult Education Centre.It was not until 2007 that the artist started to paint in earnest. Nungarrayi Granites applied herself and experimented with composition and artistic techniques, while still remaining true and respectful to her Warlpiri culture.She is known for painting the great Warlpiri story of the Seven Sisters Dreaming, which tells the narrative of the ancestral Napaljarri sisters who are found in the night sky in the star cluster known as the Pleiades, in the constellation Taurus.More of Alma Nungarrayi Granites’ wonderful paintings can be found at https://japingkaaboriginalart.com/collections/102-alma-granites-night-sky-2012 and https://maliyaa.com/alma-nungarrayi-granites/.