Gabriella Possum Nungurrayi / Grandmother’s Country

Daughter of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and an artist from childhood. Her richly detailed works carry inherited Anmatyerre narratives including Seven Sisters, Goanna, Bush Tucker and other Dreamings. She started creating art at an early age, under the tuition of her famous father and frequently collaborated with him, producing important works.

Gabriella resides in Melbourne with her lineage and travels extensively in her profession, as did her late father. The content of Gabriella's artworks is the Dreaming narratives handed down to her from her paternal grandmother, Long Rose Nungala and the other senior women who taught her in her formative years – these include Grandmother's Dreaming, Seven Sisters Dreaming (Milky Way), Goanna, Bush Tucker and Serpent Dreamings of her Anmatyerre heritage. Her natural talent and knowledge of the women’s Dreaming narratives was enhanced technically by her association with the grass roots painters of Papunya Tula – her father's brother Tim Leura Tjapaltjarri, Long Jack Phillipus, Johnny Warrankgula Tjupurula, and many others.