LENA DAWSON

Born 1965

LIVES & WORKS Warakurna

LANGUAGE GROUP Ngaanyatjarra

Lena carves alongside her good friend Cynthia Burke and has been passed down the knowledge of Country and Tjukurpa from the old people.

In this work, Lena has used the form of the piti, a traditional woman’s carrying vessel, to create a sculpture that also relates to the Minyama Kutjara. The work features walka, patterns burnt into the wood with wire heated on a wood fire, relating to Tjukurpa, stories about the creation ancestors and the activities which shaped the land.

$3200

REV23-96

In Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women, Lena depicts the two women who travelled the artist’s lands during the creation period, hunting and adventuring along the way and forming many aspects of the landscape. They also left behind information still used today about the important rituals and work of women. Lena has etched what is like a map that only she and other people of this Country can read, with information necessary to hunt and survive coded into the landscape.

$1600

REV23-97