"Water Dreaming" by Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson

"Water Dreaming" by Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson61cm by 47cm Acrylic paint on canvas About Felicity Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson has lived most of her life in Yuendumu, an Aboriginal settlement located 290 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She attended the local school and then attended Batchelor College, Darwin where she received a Diploma in teaching as an Assistant Teacher. She has worked on and off over the years at Yuendumu School. She is married and has

• 61cm by 47cm 
• Acrylic paint on canvas

About Felicity

Felicity Nampijinpa Robertson has lived most of her life in Yuendumu, an Aboriginal settlement located 290 km northwest of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. She attended the local school and then attended Batchelor College, Darwin where she received a Diploma in teaching as an Assistant Teacher. She has worked on and off over the years at Yuendumu School. She is married and has five children and many grandchildren. Felicity is the daughter of renowned artist Shorty Jangala Robertson who has been working with Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation, an Aboriginal-owned and governed art center located in Yuendumu, since 1988. In 2007 Felicity went to Melbourne where she represented her father’s painting.

At home, she likes to tell her grandchildren her Dreaming while she paints. She paints her Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water Dreaming, as seen in this painting) and Watiyawarnu Jukurrpa (Seed Dreaming) stories, stories passed down to her from her father and his father’s father before him. These stories are creation stories that relate to Felicity’s family’s traditional country, traditions that stretch back at least fifty millennia.

Felicity likes to paint, “it makes me comfortable painting all the different Ngapa and Watiyawarnu designs”.