Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri's ‘Sunrise chasing away the night’

Francesca Cubilo (Senior Advisor, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art) gives an in-depth analysis of the painting ‘Sunrise chasing away the night’ by Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri. Cubilo goes on to give a short background of the artist. Cubilo says in 1971/1972 the Aboriginal western desert art movement began in Papunya. Tjapaltjarri being a senior man and cultural leader was invited by Geoffrey Bardon to paint the dreaming stories of that region, hence the conception of ‘Sunrise chasing away the night’.