Kangaroo Dreaming, 2010

natural earth pigments on canvas

45 x 70 cm

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Provenance: Warmun Arts Centre, WA, Cat. No. WAC751/10
Artwork story: ‘This one where that dog and kangaroo be fighting over sugarbag. He couldn’t get honey, nothing. They be making them really wild. They go fighting. Coming out from here. And he bin come out there with a spear, waiting with a spear for all of us. And I bin tell em he bite here. After that all the kangaroo be finished. They bin taking off when that hill kangaroo but em blood tree. That another kangaroo go cutting that white country. That’ s why there’s white there and brown. All the kangaroo been this way, Norton Bore. Another one bin go past, he long this one. Another hill kangaroo got a short arm. We bin go mustering, my dad used to take me there. I can still picture that place. I still remember. Kangaroo Dreaming. That’s the place. They bin fight all there. Fight for hours. When I was a little girl. ’

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b. c.1927 / 1935

natural earth pigments on canvas

45 x 70 cm

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Provenance: Warmun Arts Centre, WA, Cat. No. WAC751/10
Artwork story: ‘This one where that dog and kangaroo be fighting over sugarbag. He couldn’t get honey, nothing. They be making them really wild. They go fighting. Coming out from here. And he bin come out there with a spear, waiting with a spear for all of us. And I bin tell em he bite here. After that all the kangaroo be finished. They bin taking off when that hill kangaroo but em blood tree. That another kangaroo go cutting that white country. That’ s why there’s white there and brown. All the kangaroo been this way, Norton Bore. Another one bin go past, he long this one. Another hill kangaroo got a short arm. We bin go mustering, my dad used to take me there. I can still picture that place. I still remember. Kangaroo Dreaming. That’s the place. They bin fight all there. Fight for hours. When I was a little girl. ’