19 AM 5249/07
Nura Rupert Tjulpu - Mamu Tjulpu (Bird Spirits) 2007
Acrylic on linen 450 x 650mm SOLD
Bird spirits is the third in Nura's bird series. Nura is an elderly woman with a great sense of humour and wild
imagination, who is still very much in touch with the past and her childhood in the bush. With a joyous,
childlike mind and heart, Nura often paints the things that bring her joy - kids, dogs, birds, flowers. She dares to
go where others will not, gererally concerned with the action of mamu/spirits. Nura blurs the lines between the
real world and the spirit world in her work, often having people, or rabbits, or dogs morphing into spirits.