#119 Women's Ceremony (Kookaburra Blues) - SELINA NUMINA : Aboriginal Art: 89x149cm

ARTIST: Selina Numina
LANGUAGE: Amnatajerre / Kaytetye
REGION: North Utopia Central Desert
TITLE: Women's Ceremony
MEDIUM: Painting - acrylic on canvas.

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 "The women come together to sing, dance and paint themselves up for Ceremony at the water-holes"

The Numina Sisters' bright and colourful bush medicine leaf paintings depict the different combinations of leaves used and how the leaves look different throughout the seasons or how they have fallen like a forest floor or been gather up or in close focus. Or how the seeds have fallen and separated from the leaves. The brushstrokes flow with the leaf shape pattern or the soft wind blowing them across the bare red dirt. The Numina Sisters all have a unique expression within the overall Bush Medicine Leaves style. Bush Medicine Leaves vivid sometimes flamboyant, sometimes subtle, sometimes even intense contemporary play of the palette gives uplift to the onlooker and the room.

 Selina was born in 1978 and attended school at Kormilda College in Darwin.

Selina is one of six sisters and three brothers.  Her Mother is Barbara Price Mbitjana from Tenant Creek who is also an artist.  Selina’s Father now passed was from Utopia.  The story of the Medicine leaves that Selina paints is her Father’s story.

Selina has been painting for galleries across the country for over seven years.

Her works have been purchased by art lovers and collectors and she has had works as a collaborative Exhibition in Cairns in 2010.  Selina paints many stories from her family and is a strong teacher to the next generation.  Selina teaches her Nieces to paint.

See Selina Numina's Collections profile for further information on the artist, her sister artists, and Selina's other art-series paintings for sale.