Grandmothers Country

Michelle Possum Nungurrayi

Grandmother’s Country depicts motifs that give symbolic form to tribal women engaged in cultural activities in a desert environment know as Yuelamu, which the women inherited from their Ancestral Granmother, who travelled to this Anmatyerre site in the Tanami Desert during the Dreamtime, at Creation.

Represented as symbolic U-shapes, the women are shown in different areas collection wild growing bush food, which is given form through star-like shapes that represent berry bushes, while clusters of pool encased small dots and large dots serve to represent various types of berries and bush plums that the women collect.

Michelle comes from a well-established artistic Anmatyerre family, with Clifford Possum being her father.