Kunawarritji
2009
Medium
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
Measurements
300.1 × 125.7 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 2011
© Bugai Whylouter/Copyright Agency, Australia
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Kunawarritji on the Canning Stock Route is an important rockhole near the artist’s birthplace. It was made in the Jukurpa (Dreaming). The little hills around the area were all squeezed out of the soft earth. The Minyipuru (Seven Sisters) are still standing up as a group of trees between Nyipil (Well 34) and Kunawarritji. These ancestral beings are the stars in the sky. The sweeping contours represent tali (sand hills) that dominate the topography of this vital water source. This is good country for collecting pura (bush tomato) and kantjilyi (bush raisin). The circular shapes indicate rockholes, places of living water that punctuate the desert.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Kunawarritji, Western Australia
Accession Number
2011.278
Department
First Nations Australia
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