Acrylic
on canvas
100 x 75 cm
The painting depicts an area where the artist spent many of her earlier years.
There is one major rockhole and a series of other holes in the ground with Tingarri
associations from the Dreamtime. There are lots of ‘parka-parka’ and ‘kukarpiyi’ trees
here, both of which have sweet flowers with nectar known as ‘wama’.
The artist remembers this area with great fondness.
PROVENANCE
Warlayirti Art, Balgo Hill, Catalogue Number 487/90Private Collection, Canberra.
Eubena (Yupinya) is the best known of Warlayirti Artists’ many painters.
She is one of the most esteemed law women in the community, being consulted and
deferred to on all questions of law. Eubena with her husband and family travelled
up the Canning Stock Route to Billiluna Station before following the mission
as it moved around, until arriving at its present site at Balgo Hills. Before
his death, her husband Gimme helped Father Piele with a Kukatja (Eubena and Gimme’s
second language) dictionary, to which Eubena also contributed. Eubena started
painting with her second husband Wimmitji in the mid 1980s.
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Robert Holmes à Court Collection
The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica, USA
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