Provenance
Warlayirti Artists, Western Australia, cat. 556/90
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian, International + Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26/11/2014, Lot No. 74
Private Collection
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher and Hackett, Important Australian, International + Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 26/11/2014, Lot No. 74
Private Collection
Exhibited
Innovation and Tradition: Exhibition of Recent paintings by Warlayirti Artists from Balgo Hills WA, Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne, November 1990
Crossroads – Towards a New Reality: Aboriginal Art from Australia, The National Museum of Art, Kyoto, 22 September – 8 November 1992; The National Museum of Art, Tokyo, 17 November – 20 December 1992, cat. 74.
Balgo: Visions, Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sydney, 8-11 September 2022
Literature
Uchiyama, T., (ed.), Crossroads – Towards a New Reality: Aboriginal Art from Australia, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, 1992, p. 106 (illus.)
Balgo: Visions | Eubena, 2022, D’Lan Contemporary Pty Ltd, p. 16
Balgo: Visions | Eubena, 2022, D’Lan Contemporary Pty Ltd, p. 16
Description
The painting shows a series of salt-lakes (‘yaparnu) and the designs left by the Goanna-Men who travelled through here in the Dreamtime. They were carrying fire sticks and torching the country as they went. They also held ceremonies at all of these places. There are many songs and dances associated with this Law, which the artists says he learned here as a young man prior to white contact. He is now the senior custodian for this Law which he says is very powerful.
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Status
On Loan