contemporary art world. Typically large meandering canvases tell of complex, yet fundamental, stories of ownership and land rights fused with whimsical stories of creation handed from generation to generation.R E D O T F I N E A R T G A L L E R Y in conjunction with Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency The Spinifex artists continue to paint traditional stories and document kinship responsibilities and these works have become widely knownpresents in the fine art world as some of the most important modern contemporary Indigenous art pieces being produced today. This growing reputation is also gaining international acclaim and the works are now housed within major art and museum collections both in Australia and overseas, with recent acquisitions by the British Museum making headlines and a major show in Germany in 2013. This exhibition showcasing works by old master such as Fred Grant, Ned Grant, Roy Underwood, Estelle Hogan, Tjaruwa Woods and Lawrence Pennington, to mention but a few, opens on Wednesday, 14th May and runs till Saturday, 21st June 2014 and it is a must-see for Partof1modern contemporary Indigenous art, from anyone interested in following the development one of the Aboriginal art movements most remote, refreshing and innovative art centres.
Cory/Molly/Stumpy
Giorgio Pilla Director ReDot Fine Art Gallery
13 th August - 13 th September 2014
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Cory/Molly/Stumpy Following on from last year’s release of works from the estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr, ReDot Fine Art Gallery is honoured and excited to be able to announce the estates and final works of three other senior women from the same community, the highly esteemed Wakartu Cory Surprise, Nyuju Stumpy Brown and Walka Molly Rogers. Simply titled ‘Cory/Molly/Stumpy’, this exhibition will celebrate their amazing talents with works both on canvas and paper, dating back over 20 years, blatant records of desert country with the recurring theme being the Jila (waterhole) of various sites in the Great Sandy Desert which is one of the major ancestral areas for their people. All three women were founding members of Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency in the early nineties and first exhibited work in the exhibition ‘Karrayili’ in Tandanya, Adelaide, 1991. They were also represented in Images of Power: Aboriginal Art of the Kimberley, National Gallery of Victoria, 1993. They instantly gained national recognition and became part of the core group of
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artists at the art centre who continued to paint and exhibit consistently throughout the 1990s and 2000s with their domestic appeal soon moving internationally. Cory and Stumpy eventually became two of the best known Indigenous artists in Australia and Molly creating a solid fan base for her whimsical portraits of Kimberley waterholes. They also jointly worked on the two eminent Ngurrara canvases in 1997, which were pivotal in proving the group’s connection to country and later led to their successful Ngurrara Native Title Claim. Nyuju’s effervescent, intuitive and brightly hued paintings reflect a spritely and engaging character that belies the hardships and cultural dislocation that she experienced in her long life. Wakartu on the other hand came to painting relatively late in life, at around the age of 50, after many years of rigorous station work. There’s nothing overly typical though about Wakartu’s paintings. In a community and art centre acclaimed for both its large-scale collaborations and major individual talents, Wakartu wielded a powerful blend of nononsense seniority and sheer, expressive originality. Walka blended effortlessly between the pair, contrasting, complimenting and threading together the complex stories these women had to tell. Wakartu’s bold compositions, restricted palette and sheer expressive originality had her admirers proclaiming her among Australia’s foremost abstract painters, Nyuju and Walka sat very close by on this scale. A never to be repeated show, there are over 50 works, from major canvases to exquisite small works on paper, capturing one of the most important bodies of Indigenous work to have left Australia in many years. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, 13th August and runs till Saturday, 13th September 2014 and it is a must-see for anyone interested in following the development of modern contemporary Indigenous art, from one of the Aboriginal art movements most refreshing and innovative art centres.
Giorgio Pilla Director ReDot Fine Art Gallery
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Birth Date Deceased Language Home
01/07/1929 10/2011 Walmajarri Pirrmal, Great Sandy Desert
“I was born at Tapu in the Great Sandy desert around 1929. Tapu is my father’s country and Kurtal is my mother’s country. My parents died when I was a baby. I grew up at Wayampajarti and that is my country now. I don’t remember my mummy or daddy. They passed away in the desert. When I was crawling my sister-in-law Trixie took me to Christmas Creek. I was promised to one old man who had two wives. We had no clothes when we went in. We were frightened of the Station Manager so we ran away from that place. Two times we ran away to the desert. I walked out from the bush as a young woman with my two brothers. We were living at Wayampajarti and around that country there. At Wayampajarti there is a jila [permanent waterhole] where Kalpartu [an ancestral snake] lives. When we lived out in the bush we learnt the law. We learnt where the water is, where our country is and where to find food.You have to be careful not to go to the wrong places because you might make the Kalpartu [spirit snake] angry or them other ones like Kukurr Murungkurr Parlangan.You could make other people angry too.You need permission to go to other people’s country. I went to the desert with my husband to look for kumanjayi [deceased] Pijaju out there, then we all came back for ceremony. My husband did contract work building fences. I followed him on those contracts. I worked as a camp cook. I cooked food for big mobs of people. I cleaned, cooked and milked goats. We worked at Quanbun Downs, Jubilee Station,Yiyili and Cherrabun Station. Then I lived mainly at one place, GoGo Station (near Fitzroy Crossing) until I was old. I came to Fitzroy Crossing in the 1950s. I have a big mob of kids and some of them have passed away now. I first started painting at Karrayili Adult Education Centre in the early eighties. We told our stories through painting and learned to speak to kartiya [European person]. I also did painting at Bayulu community near Fitzroy Crossing. That’s how I told my story to kartiya. We worked on paper then, not canvas or board. When I paint, I think about my country, and where I have been travelling across that country. I paint from here (points to head - thinking about country) and here (points to breasts, collarbone and shoulder blades - which is a reference to body painting). I think about my Source: © Mangkaja Arts
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Birth Date Deceased Language Home
01/07/1929 10/2011 Walmajarri Pirrmal, Great Sandy Desert
“I was born at Tapu in the Great Sandy desert around 1929. Tapu is my father’s country and Kurtal is my mother’s country. My parents died when I was a baby. I grew up at Wayampajarti and that is my country now. I don’t remember my mummy or daddy. They passed away in the desert. When I was crawling my sister-in-law Trixie took me to Christmas Creek. I was promised to one old man who had two wives. We had no clothes when we went in. We were frightened of the Station Manager so we ran away from that place. Two times we ran away to the desert. I walked out from the bush as a young woman with my two brothers. We were living at Wayampajarti and around that country there. At Wayampajarti there is a jila [permanent waterhole] where Kalpartu [an ancestral snake] lives. When we lived out in the bush we learnt the law. We learnt where the water is, where our country is and where to find food.You have to be careful not to go to the wrong places because you might make the Kalpartu [spirit snake] angry or them other ones like Kukurr Murungkurr Parlangan.You could make other people angry too.You need permission to go to other people’s country. I went to the desert with my husband to look for kumanjayi [deceased] Pijaju out there, then we all came back for ceremony. My husband did contract work building fences. I followed him on those contracts. I worked as a camp cook. I cooked food for big mobs of people. I cleaned, cooked and milked goats. We worked at Quanbun Downs, Jubilee Station,Yiyili and Cherrabun Station. Then I lived mainly at one place, GoGo Station (near Fitzroy Crossing) until I was old. I came to Fitzroy Crossing in the 1950s. I have a big mob of kids and some of them have passed away now. I first started painting at Karrayili Adult Education Centre in the early eighties. We told our stories through painting and learned to speak to kartiya [European person]. I also did painting at Bayulu community near Fitzroy Crossing. That’s how I told my story to kartiya. We worked on paper then, not canvas or board. When I paint, I think about my country, and where I have been travelling across that country. I paint from here (points to head - thinking about country) and here (points to breasts, collarbone and shoulder blades - which is a reference to body painting). I think about my
people, the old people and what they told me and jumangkarni [Dreamtime]. When I paint I am thinking about law from a long time ago. I like painting, it’s good. I get pamarr [word for rock, stone money] for it. I can buy my food, tyres and fix my car. I give some money to my family and I keep some for myself. Nobody taught me how to paint, I put down my own ideas. I saw these places for myself, I went there with the old people. I paint jilji [sand hills], jumu [soak water], jila [permanent waterhole], jiwari [rock hole], pamarr [hills and rock country], I think about mangarri [vegetable food] and kuyu [game] from my country and when I was there.� Wakartu Cory Surprise, 2009
Collections National Museum of Australia National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Victoria Art Gallery of New South Wales Queensland Art Gallery Charles Darwin University Steve Luzco Collection, San Francisco, USA Sammlung Alison and Peter W Klein Collection, Germany Laverty Collection HBL Collection, Melbourne Harriett and Richard England Collection Fitzroy Crossing High School Fitzroy Crossing Hospital Peter & Agnes Cooke Collection
Solo Exhibition 2011 2009 2007 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004
Wakartu Cory Surprise, Seva Frangos Art, WA Wakartu Cory Surprise, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, NSW Wakartu Cory Surprise, Silvershot Gallery Raft Artspace, Melbourne,VIC Wakartu Cory Surprise: New Works, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT Wakartu Cory Surprise, Silvershot Gallery Raft Artspace, Melbourne,VIC Mangkaja Arts Presents: Wakartu Cory Surprise, Raft Artspace, Darwin, NT Cory and Friends, ReDot Fine Art Gallery, Singapore Wakartu Cory Surprise, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Awards 2010 Western Australian Premier’s Indigenous Art Award, Winner of the WA $50,000 Overall Art Award 2009 Western Australian Premier’s Indigenous Art Award Winner of the ‘WA $10,000 Artist’ Award 2008 25th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award, Highly commended 1997 14th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award Winner of the ‘Telstra Work on Paper’ Award
Works on Canvas
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirntirri Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 929/10
Warla and jilji all around, in the Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mimbi Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 928/07
Big one water hole; mine one! All the men go there first, then the women.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tapu Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 905/09
This painting is about my country near Tapu. These sandhills all around.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tjarrarri Warla Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 733/09
Biggest warla, my one this one, biggest jilji like a hill. We been living there when I was a kid. Biggest mob been living there.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tapu Jila Waterhole Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 498/08
In Tapu there are four jila (permanent waterholes). We can’t drink from three of them, only from one. The other three are places for men’s ceremony. This is an important waterhole for my people. I have not been there since I was a little girl. I remember being there with my brother. In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) people lived here, from a long time (ago). They are midgets, little people. They were all around that jila (living water, spring), a long time ago in the Dreamtime. They all met at this place, they look out for the people in the country, they look after the people there, the people from that country. One of those Dreamtime people, from a long time ago, found a white snake here at Tapu. He was a countryman, he was there for a long time. The water in this jila (water hole) rises up from the ground when you dig him up, he big one this jila. This is my country, big mob of turtujarti (desert walnut), we got plenty of miyi (bush tucker) here, jurnta (bush onion), kumpuparja (bush tomato).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jilji Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 391/08
This painting is a place called Mimbi - living water.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Palma Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 283/10
After the rain the water runs through the jilji (sandhills).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Myarta Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 120cm 103/09
There is a large waterhole in my country but I never put it in this painting. This is all the pamarr (rock and hills).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pitil Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 140 x 100cm 495/08
Pitil jila (waterhole) he right up close to wayampajarti jila, he got jilji (sandhill) all around. Here through the jilji all the people have been walk through this country. Its got turtujarti (desert walnut) and miljita growing here on top of the jilji and tinyjil (snappy gum).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tep Jila (Waterhole) Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 90cm 600/09
Biggest one waterhole this one right out in the Great Sandy Desert. That little eagle he there, he has been calling out. Wakartu imitates the sound.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pitmarl Jila Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 90cm 738/09
Biggest one jila he got a snake inside.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Nanujararlalong Jila Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 90cm 1189/08
Long way in the Great Sandy Desert. This is my mother’s country. It is a jila (waterhole) in the middle with jilji (sandhills) all around.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pitil Jila Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 90cm 461/09
This biggest one jila (waterhole) out in my country. My place this one, he got pirnti (small claypan with clear water) and jila (permanent waterhole).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Yinijaparri Jumu Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Cotton Duck 120 x 90cm pc259/04
This jumu (soakwater) is in the Tapu area. This is jumu country and pamarr (rocky hill country). It is known for the yellow ocher that can be found here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tapu Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Cotton Duck 120 x 90cm pc531/04
This depicts an important waterhole (jila) in Cory’s country, the Canning Stock region of the Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirnti Atelier Artist Acrylic on 10oz Cotton Duck 152 x 55cm pc434/04
This depicts a big warla (lake) in Cory’s country. Cory and her people walk to and from this site.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tapu Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 90 x 90cm 106/07
This one here tapu, He big one jila biggest one rockhole, my one I been born here in tapu.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jilji Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Cotton Duck 120 x 60cm pc517/04
We have been walking a long time, my kirlaki (grandfather - fathers father) my ngawiji (grandmother - fathers mother), my ngamaji (mother) and my ngarpu (father) and before that a long time all our people walked through the Jilji (sandhills) in the Great Sandy Desert. In the jumangkarni (dreamtime) big mob of people walked one by one across the Jilji. In the Jilji we catch that wirlka (sand goanna) there is also marlu (kangaroo) and wallaby, and mangarri (vegetable food).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirntiti Warla Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 60cm 291/07
Big one warla (large claypan) out near wayampajarti in my country.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mukurutu Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 120 x 60cm 108/07
This big one rockhole jila. Lots of mangarri (food) and kuyu (meat) here, he got jurnta (bush onion) next to water. Also bushhoney and lots of bush food, big mob kumpupaja everywhere. All them people they get big mobs of mangarri here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirnti Atelier Artist Acrylic on 11oz Cotton Duck 80 x 60cm pc198/05
Pirnti (Claypan) while walking through the desert we may stop to camp at a dry claypan. There are often lots of bush tucker found around a pirnti.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pakanyungu Atelier Artist Acrylic on 10oz Cotton Duck 76 x 50.5cm pc335/04
My sister, Amy, was born here. Women have been camping here a long time. It is a place for women to camp, no men sleep here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mantata Atelier Artist Acrylic on 10oz Cotton Duck 76 x 50.5cm pc334/04
This is a big one, a big waterhole that we travelled to.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mukurrtu Jila Atelier Artist Acrylic on 10oz Cotton Duck 76 x 50.5cm pc332/04
This is a big round jila (living spring) in my country, in sandhill country.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jila (Walypa) Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 60 x 60cm 906/07
Jila (water hole or soak) next to Tapu.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jumu Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 60 x 60cm 907/07
Jarru is the name of this waterhole in The Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Nyimpi Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 70 x 45cm pc134/04
This is an important jila (spring) in my country, the Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Kirriwirri Kartu Atelier Acrylic Paint on 14oz Canvas 60 x 45cm 271/07
This Pirnti (claypan) in my country. This Pirnti big one. I have been working around here when I was a little girl. My mother took me away from this place when I was little she took me away from my father’s country.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Wyampajatu Atelier Artist Acrylic on 10oz Cotton Duck 60 x 30cm pc485/04
This depicts a big waterhole in Cory’s country, the Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Karru Atelier Artist Acrylic on 10oz Cotton Duck 60 x 30cm pc486/04
This depicts a waterhole in Cory’s country, the Great Sandy Desert. These are the jilji (sandhills) around the area.
Works on Paper
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirntirri Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 112 x 76cm 826/08
Biggest Warla in the Great Sandy Desert. We used to camp here at this place. Biggest camp for big mob of people. Good camp this one, me fella camp. Lots of mangarri (bushfood) and kuyu (game) here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Karru Jiwari, Jumu & Palma Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 112 x 76cm wp194/01
This one little one jiwari (rockhole) with jumu (soakwater) and palma (creek).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Ngarrangkarni Derivan Matisse Acrylic - 280gsm Velin BFK Rives 112 x 76cm 273/12
I was born here at pirrmal. This is a place for ceremony. This is a place for men and women’s ceremony. The men ’play’ on one side and the women on the other. The line down the middle was made in the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) when the women walked this way. (Artwork completed early 90’s)
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Wirrikarjarti Derivan Matisse Acrylic - 280gsm Velin BFK Rives 105 x 76cm wp030/96
This is my family’s country called Wirrikarjarti. There are lots of jilji (sandhills) and one waterhole. This is a jila (permanent waterhole). When I was a kid my family used to bring me here a lot. We went hunting and walkabout here. We used to camp here too. I have painted the wirlany. Wirlany is a cloud that gives us a sign for rain.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pamarr Derivan Matisse Acrylic - 280gsm Velin BFK Rives 105 x 75cm 53/12
(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime one man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there. On reverse - [Painted 7 May 1993]
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pamarr Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 105 x 75cm 828/08
(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime one man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pamarr Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 105 x 75cm 200/12
(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime one man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Wyampajarri Derivan Matisse Acrylic - 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 60cm 156/12
This is an important jila (spring) for ceremony. This is my country in the Great Sandy Desert. This painting was painted for dancing the Wyampajarri corroboree. (Artwork completed early 90’s)
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Walmajari Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 56.5cm wp298/04
This is a big jila (spring) in my country, the Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Ngarrangkarni Derivan Matisse Acrylic - 280gsm Velin BFK Rives 76 x 56cm wp108/92
I was born here at pirrmal. This is a place for ceremony. This is a place for men and women’s ceremony. The men ’play’ on one side and the women on the other. The line down the middle was made in the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) when the women walked this way. On reverse - [Painted 15 April 1992]
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Wyampayarri Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 56cm 176/13
This is an important big jila (spring/living water) in my country.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pamarr Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 56cm wp171/04
(Rocky Hill) This is a good place for climbing up to look out a long way. In the Dreamtime one man was looking out over all the people. They were frightened of him being there.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tapu Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 56cm wp202/04
This is an important jila (living water) in my country. Lots of people would come here for ceremony.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mukurutu Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 75 x 53cm 77/08
Mukurutu pronounced Mookoorootoo is the area of Wakartu’s family, the old fella been gone a long time.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mimpi Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 75 x 53cm 177/13
Big ngapa (water) long way desert side, that ngapa is in between that jilji (sandhills). We call it mimpi (pronounced mimbee), that place.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mytarta Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm 179/13
This place is called Mytarta - biggest one jila (waterhole). Lots of mangarri (food) around here. Plenty of tucker here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pintirl Warla Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm 180/13
Biggest one warla (large claypan), three fella, my fella country for my mother and father, my mummy been take me here, we been camp here long time. The three circles represent people who have turned into waterholes, at Pintirl Warla.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Tapu Warla Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm 182/13
Tapu this one warla (large claypan that holds rainwater), jilji (sandhills) all around.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Nyimpi Waterhole Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm 183/13
This is an important jila (spring) in my country, the Great Sandy Desert.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Mytarta Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm 189/13
This place is called Mytarta - biggest one jila (waterhole). Lots of mangarri (food) around here. Plenty of tucker here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Myarta Jiwari (Rockhole) Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm wp326/99
This one rockhole, Myarta he called, he got big jilji (sandhills) all around.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jilljie My Country Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm wp361/03
Jilljie is where I grew up. In this area as a child growing up into a woman.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jilljie My Country Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65.5 x 50cm wp362/03
Jilljie is where I grew up. In this area as a child growing up into a woman.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Kutarmiti Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 65 x 50cm 181/13
Two jilas (waterholes) to the east side of the Great Sandy Desert. A lot of jilji (sandhills).
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jilljie My Country Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 75 x 36cm wp293/04
Jilljie is where I grew up. In this area as a child growing up into a woman.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Jilji Sandhills Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 75 x 35cm wp325/05
Jilji (sandhills) in the Great Sandy Desert. We walk across the jilji to get from one jila (waterhole) to another.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Kurtutu Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 75 x 34cm wp330/05
This is a big jila (living water) in my country.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Wyampajarri Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 34cm wp649/05
This is an important jila for ceremony in my country.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Ngarrangkarni Derivan Matisse Acrylic - 280gsm Velin BFK Rives 56 x 38cm wp014/96
I was born here at pirrmal. This is a place for ceremony. This is a place for men and women’s ceremony. The men ’play’ on one side and the women on the other. The line down the middle was made in the Ngarrangkarni (Dreamtime) when the women walked this way.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirntirri Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 52.5 x 37cm 174/13
Biggest Warla in the Great Sandy Desert. We used to camp here at this place. Biggest camp for big mob of people. Good camp this one, me fella camp. Lots of mangarri (bushfood) and kuyu (game) here.
Wakartu Cory SURPRISE
Pirnti Atelier Artist Acrylic, 250gsm Velin Arches Paper 76 x 27cm wp647/05
(Claypan) Good place for camping.
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