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Tee'wiith yot-a! (Plenty of white cockatoos!)

Keith Wikmunea
Tee'wiith yot-a! (Plenty of white cockatoos!)
 2022

Medium
earth pigments and synthetic polymer paint on Milkwood (Alstonia actinophylla)

Measurements
251.5 × 154.0 × 93.6 cm

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family, 2022
© Keith Wikmunea

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Gallery location
Gallery 3
Ground Level, NGV Australia

 

About this work

Keith Wikmunea is Wik-Alkan on his mother’s side and Wik-Mungkan on the side of his father, whose Country is Kencherang, north of Aurukun in Far North Queensland. Tee’wiith yot-a! (Plenty of white cockatoos!) consists of a carved milkwood tree with branches extending outwards to host a flock of white cockatoos. Wikmunea has explained that there is a large freshwater lagoon on Kencherang Country that fills with saltwater during the high tides of the wet season, through a creek that connects his father’s Country with his mother’s. Tee’wiith yot-a! celebrates Wikmunea’s craftsmanship and passion for passing on cultural knowledge to future generations through contemporary sculpture.

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
Aurukun, Queensland

Accession Number
2022.873

Department
First Nations Australia

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