19 RL004
Ronnie Lawson Jakamarra Women's Dreaming 2003
Screenprint: Opaque paint on 4 acetates 640x480mm, 760x560mm $650
This is an important male Yilpinji (love magic) story. All women, despite their devotion to the land they grew up
in must forsake this country and go with a man of the right skin group and adopt his country once married. The
artist has shown a Jakamarra man and his Napaljarri partner as U shapes with their genitals protruding in the
centre of the image. The woman is surrounded by digging sticks. The man is shown at the top of the image with
his shield. They are both travelling from the south to the north. The woman wants to go toward her own
country. Her desire to travel east is shown at the bottom of the image however the travelling lines are not
connected to her destination indicating that the man is preventing her from returning to her country. She must
go with him to his own country as indicated by the travelling path shown on either side of the image. He tells
her,’ If you go that way, you will have to travel with another man of the wrong skin group’.

Medium: Screenprint
Edition Size: 99
Printer: Basil Hall and Simon White
Studio: Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
Screenprint Created At: Lajamanu, NT on July, 2002
Print Published: Darwin, NT on January, 2003
Paper: Magnani Pescia, 300gsm white
Paper Height: 760 mm ( 29.9" )
Paper Width: 560 mm ( 22.0" )
Image Height: 640 mm ( 25.2" )
Image Width: 480 mm ( 18.9" )
I.D. : RL004