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BARBARA MOORE MBITJANA born 1964 Ngayuku Ngura (My Country), 2013 acrylic on linen 121 x 121 cm inscribed verso: Tjala Arts cataloguing details PROVENANCE Tjala Art, SA Cat No. 300-13 Talapi Gallery, NT Private Collection, USA accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Tjala Arts EXHIBITED Ngayulu Nguraku Ninti - The Country I Know, Barbara Moore & Sharon Adamson, Kluge Ruhe, Charlottesville, USA, 19 September 2019 - 2 February 2020 Barbara Moore Mbitjana grew up in Amoonguna and on her father's Country near Ti Tree in the Northern Territory, later moving to Amata in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands after she married. In this painting she returns, through memory and map-like design, to the Country around Ti Tree. The work reads as an aerial view: fields of colour and shifting shapes register changes in ground, sandplains, rocky rises, patches of spinifex and bloom, while rockholes punctuate the surface as anchoring landmarks. Networks of travel lines thread between these sites, signalling the pathways that hold important Tjukurpa (Law, story and enduring knowledge). Some areas are closely worked, suggesting the density of activity around water and ceremonial places; others open out, allowing the eye to move across the painting as if tracing a route through Country. Although Moore now lives far from her birthplace, painting becomes a way of staying connected. The palette draws on the seasonal life of the desert, especially the wildflowers that carpet the Country in spring, so that colour carries both memory and mood. Ngayuku Ngura is not a literal map; it's a layered record of place, kin and experience, bringing the artist's Northern Territory Country into the present with clarity and care. @ BARBARA MOORE MBITJANA / Copyright Agency, 2025