Medium:  Etching

Size:  24.5cm x 37 cm

Title:  Dayiwul Ngarranggarni

In the Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) three women were chasing Dayiwul (barramundi).  They tried to trapp her with spinifex nets.  This is the traditional method of catching fish where ngirriny (river spinifex) is rolled in the water to form a net.  When she landed she turned into a range of hills, today called the Pitt Range (shown in this painting).  The women gave up and walked to a place called Gawinji (Cattle Creek) where they turned into rocks.  

COLLECTIONS

Artbank, Sydney 

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 

Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth  

Sydney Kaplan Collection, USA 

Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth 

Musee du Quai Branly, Paris, France 

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra 

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 

Notre Dame University Collection, Western Australia