Naomi Pula Price is an Anmetyerre woman from Boundary Bore, around 300km North East of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. She comes from one of the most famous painting families in Australia. Her mother is prominent senior Utopian artist Anna Price Petyarre. Encouraged by her mother and other family members, Naomi is now producing excellent artworks.
Her style is similar to the early works of her mother Anna with intricate dot work telling the story of her country and ceremonies.
She is related by marriage to Emily Kame Kngwarreye (her grandfather was Michael Kngwarreye) and her Grandmother is the late Gloria (Glory) Ngale. Gloria was known for her eye for colour, a legacy of her Batik work, which she passed down to her daughters and granddaughters.
This traditional painting depicts women’s initiation ceremony where senior women gather together to teach their culture & dreamtime stories to their young women. They travel between one sacred site to another depicted by the concentric circles, teaching the importance of each site, their dreamtime songs & dances in the area of the artist’s birthplace. They also teach their young women how to survive & collect bush tucker.
