#143 - Yam Seed Dreaming (Sunset) - Artist: JOY PURVIS PITJARA - 90cm x 97cm

AUD $880.00

Medium: Acrylic on Canvas

Language: Anteltye

Title: Yam Seed Dreaming

Region: Utopia. Northern Territory

Completed: 2025

Biography:

Joy Purvis is a proud Atneltye woman, from Utopia. Her deep connection to her ancestral lands and cultural teachings forms the heart of her artistic practice. Through each artwork, Joy honours the stories, landscapes, and knowledge shared by her Elders.

Joy is known for her striking Yam Seed paintings, which pay tribute to the traditional significance of yam as a vital food source and a symbol of nourishment, resilience, and renewal. Her Yam Seed works feature delicate clusters of seed forms, radiating patterns, and rhythmic dotwork that represent growth, abundance, and the cycles of Country. These paintings reflect the movement of seeds across the land and the way they anchor people to place through traditional harvesting practices.

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