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HUSBAND & WIFE: PATRICK MUNG MUNG & BETTY CARRINGTON

Past exhibition
16 July - 13 August 2021
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Betty Carrington, THREE NGARRANGGARNI, 2011

Betty Carrington Australian, Gija, 1944-2022

THREE NGARRANGGARNI, 2011
Natural ochre and pigments on canvas
120 x 45 cm
837562
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(from right to left, as Betty described it) First panel: This story takes place over near the nickel mine – nickel mine dreaming – down the creek, near Springvale. It...
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(from right to left, as Betty described it) First panel: This story takes place over near the nickel mine – nickel mine dreaming – down the creek, near Springvale. It is a moon story – Garnkiny Ngarranggarni. The moon is chasing his mother-in-law. But I didn’t draw that snake - the black-headed snake (python) – I left him out. Second panel: This is a Dreamtime story, when man and woman been travelling around together, but the woman turned into that rock. You can see her in it up the front. Those ridges in the back are the ones around the nickel mine and she is in the rock just there at the front. Third panel: In the Dreamtime, husband and wife, they been sleeping in the rock. One day they exploded out of that rock and left two big holes that are still there now. That husband and wife became two birds – those owls sitting on the left and right.
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