Seven Sisters Dreaming

Michelle Possum Nungurrayi

In this painting, Michelle captures the night sky over the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory of Australia, which was home to seven Ancestral Sisters and an old Tjakamarra tribal man who followed the sisters to the Milky Way during the Creation Time. Represented as a lone concentric circle, the old man was relentless in his pursuit of the women, who finally decided to flee to the Milky Way and there they became seven stars, which we call the Pleiades.

Michelle comes from a well-established artistic Anmatyerre family.