Acrylic on Belgian linen
91 x 61 cm
This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Wala Wala,
west of the Kiwirrkura Community. The Eagle Dreaming is associated with this
site. In mythological times one eagle travelled from Wala Wala to Patja rockhole,
south of Jupiter Well. This mythology forms part of the Tingari Cycle. Since
events associated with the Tingari Cycle are of a secret nature no further
detail is given.
PROVENANCE
Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, painted at Kiwirrkura 1999,
Catalogue number BW990931
William Mora Gallery, Melbourne
Bobby is the son of Freddy West Tjakamarra, one of the original shareholders
of Papunya Tula Artists. He was born at the rockhole site of Tjamu Tjamu, which
is east of Kiwirrkura around 1958. Bobby ’s family was met by Jeremy
Long’s
welfare patrol in 1963. At the time his family was camping at Willi rockhole,
slightly east of Kintore. Bobby appears with his family in the book ‘Lizard
Eaters’, by Douglas Lockwood which documents
the patrol in 1963. He commenced painting for Papunya Tula Artists in the late
1980’s.
EXHIBITED
‘ BOBBY WEST’, William Mora Gallery, Melbourne, May 2002,
Catalogue number 5
REPRESENTED
National Gallery of Victoria
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