Women's Dreaming, 2001 by Nancy Nungurrayi 61x91cm Cat 6600NN

Nancy's subject matter is often body paint designs that are painted on women's breasts during women's ceremonies. There is a beautiful fluidity and gestural quality to her work.

Nancy Nungurrayi, a highly respected western desert artist was born in 1935. Up until assimilation period in the mid-late '60s she had lived a traditional lifestyle north west of Kintore with her sister Naata Nungurrayi and extended family at a site called Maya where she was born and then later at Wala Wala, west of the Kiwikurra Community.

A finalist in the 2001 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards she exhibited widely both within Australia and overseas and represented in both the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Nancy passed away in 2009.