Barbara Pananka

Barbara Pananka

Stirling Station, NT

Region

Around 1950

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Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-4Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-4
63x59cm
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-4 Sale price$250.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-2Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-2
62x62cm
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-2 Sale price$250.00 AUD
Aboriginal Art by Barbara Pananka, titled Bush Tucker, depicting brown swirls with alternative blue, yellow, and black sectionsBarbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-1
58x63cm
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .15-1 Sale price$250.00 AUD
Aboriginal Art by Barbara Pananka with red and brown colours, including traditional Aboriginal motifs on a small canvas.Barbara Pananka - Women's Collecting Bush Tomatoes  .38-1
Aboriginal Art by Barbara Pananka depicting Women's Collecting Bush Tucker, with a textured red and yellow background, and black and white semi-circle motifs around the edges of the canvas.Barbara Pananka - Women's Collecting Bush Tomatoes .38-7
Barbara Pananka - Women’s Body Paint .96-2Barbara Pananka - Women’s Body Paint .96-2
98x43cm
Barbara Pananka - Women’s Body Paint .96-2 Sale price$330.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Lizard Dreaming  .38-18Barbara Pananka - Lizard Dreaming  .38-18
36x51cm
Barbara Pananka - Lizard Dreaming .38-18 Sale price$160.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Lizard Dreaming .38-15Barbara Pananka - Lizard Dreaming .38-15
36x51cm
Barbara Pananka - Lizard Dreaming .38-15 Sale price$160.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Thorny Lizard Tracks  .BP03Barbara Pananka - Thorny Lizard Tracks  .BP03
36x51cm
Barbara Pananka - Thorny Lizard Tracks .BP03 Sale price$160.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Thorny Lizard Tracks  .BP02Barbara Pananka - Thorny Lizard Tracks  .BP02
36x51cm
Barbara Pananka - Thorny Lizard Tracks .BP02 Sale price$160.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Women's ceremony  .BP01Barbara Pananka - Women's ceremony  .BP01
35x50cm
Barbara Pananka - Women's ceremony .BP01 Sale price$160.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting for Ceremonies .82-1Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting for Ceremonies .82-1
Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting for Ceremonies .82-2Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting for Ceremonies .82-2
Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting .73-2Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting .73-2
70x45cm
Barbara Pananka - Women's Body Painting .73-2 Sale price$390.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .29-1Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .29-1
52x59cm
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .29-1 Sale price$210.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Women's Collecting Bush Tomatoes .38-4Barbara Pananka - Women's Collecting Bush Tomatoes .38-4
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker 38-13Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker 38-13
35x51cm
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker 38-13 Sale price$160.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - Women's Ceremony - 147x90cm .38-21Barbara Pananka - Women's Ceremony - 147x90cm .38-21
Barbara Pananka - Women’s Dreaming .87Barbara Pananka - Women’s Dreaming .87
105x89cm
Barbara Pananka - Women’s Dreaming .87 Sale price$550.00 AUD
Barbara Pananka - 90-3Barbara Pananka - 90-3
80x92cm
Barbara Pananka - 90-3 Sale price$380.00 AUD
Aboriginal Art by Barbara Pananka showing a textured brown background, with the rows of Bush Tucker in green and blue, lined by white dotsBarbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .90-13
85x109cm
Barbara Pananka - Bush Tucker .90-13 Sale price$350.00 AUD

About The Artist

As Fate (and our good fortune as art lovers) would have it, Barbara’s husband was the late Douglas Petyarre, whose six sisters – particularly Gloria, Kathleen, and Ada – would eventually become among the most influential artists of the Australian Aboriginal Art Movement. Barbara and Douglas would raise eight children on Country in Utopia – six daughters and two sons – nearly all of whom would become celebrated artists in their own right. Barbara’s six daughters are the ‘Numina Sisters’ – Sharon, Selina, Louise, Caroline, Jacinta, and Lanita – and it was Aunty Gloria, Aunty Kathleen and Aunty Ada who taught their brother's daughters to paint. One of her sons, Paul, was acknowledged very early in his career as being one of the most important young artists of the Utopian Aboriginal Art movement.

In 2008, after Douglas had passed and her children had moved to Darwin to focus on their careers as artists, Barbara moved to Darwin to be closer to her children and, eventually, her grandchildren. As the highly respected matriarch of this incredibly talented family, Barbara paints sacred stories of the women’s ceremonies from the Utopia Aboriginal Lands of the Eastern Desert region, including gathering of bush tucker to share, and ceremonial body painting.