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RUTH NAPANGARDI LANGDON
Ruth was born in Alice Springs Hospital in 1993 and grew up in Yuendumu community in the Northern Territory, where she went to the local community school. She loves playing softball and has also worked as a childcare and youth worker. Her parents are also artists, Geraldine Napurrurla Langdon, and Jimmy Langdon.
Ruth began painting with the Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal owned and governed art centre located in Yuendumu, in 2009. Ruth paints designs associated with her family’s country including Ngurrlu Jukurrpa (Native Seed Dreaming) and Wanakiji Jukurrpa (Bush Tomato Dreaming). These stories and designs have been passed down through her family for millennia.
The Wanakiji Jukurrpa (bush tomato [Solanum chippendalei Dreaming) travels through Yaturlu (near Mount Theo, north of Yuendumu). "Wanakiji" grows in open spinifex country and is a small, prickly plant with purple flowers that bears green fleshy fruit with many small black seeds.
After collecting the fruit the seeds are removed with a small wooden spoon called 'kajalarra'. The fruit then can be eaten raw or threaded onto skewers called 'turiturrpa' and then cooked over a fire. Wanakiji can also be skewered and left to dry. When they are prepared in this way it is called 'turiturrpa' and the fruit can be kept for a long time. In contemporary Waripiri paintings traditional iconography is used to represent the Jukurrpa, particular sites and other elements.
The Wanakiji Jukurrpa belongs to Napanangka/Napangardi women and Japanangka/Japangardi men.
Warlukurlangu Artists is one of the longest running and most successful Aboriginal owned art centres in Central Australia. Warlukurlangu Artists is supported by funding from the Australian Government through the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support Program.
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Introducing this incredible collaboration with Artist Ruth Napangardi Langdon & Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation.
