Ngirramanujuwal: The Art and Country of Jimmy Pike

Ngirramanujuwal is one who adds colour. It manifests as the first strokes of ink on paper, the saturated colours of the desert sky at dusk, or through the glimmers of the sun on the water’s surface. Walmajarri man Jimmy Pike (c. 1940–2002) was an internationally renowned artist from the Great Sandy Desert in Australia’s north-west. His vivid colour and exceptional drawing, painting, and printing skills reveal the desert as a place teaming with colour, life, history, and stories. Ngirramanuj...