Grandmother's Country 1995

Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi made *Grandmother's Country* with paint, building up a landscape from a multitude of tiny dots. It's like looking at the world through a screen, or maybe through the lens of time itself. The colours feel grounded, earthy – browns, reds, yellows – yet they're peppered with blues and pinks that lift the whole scene into something dreamlike. You can almost feel the heat radiating from the red patches. The surfaces shift between flatness and depth, kind of like memory itself. I keep coming back to those starburst shapes. They're so bright, so insistent, they pull you into the painting's orbit. Each one is slightly different, which keeps the eye moving, searching for patterns and connections. I'm reminded of Hilma af Klint's early abstract paintings, where she was also trying to map unseen worlds. But where Klint's work feels precise, Nungurrayi's feels more organic, more alive. Art is such a wonderful conversation across time, isn't it?