Click to enlargec.1915 – 1998
- Region
- Kimberley
- Community
- Warmun (Turkey Creek)
- Language group
- Gija (Kija, Gidja, Kitja)
Three Sisters - Blue Mountains, 1997
natural earth pigments on canvas
90 x 120 cm
Price on application — enquire
- Provenance
- Narrangunny Art Traders Cat No. N-0747-QM Private Collection, NSW Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Narrangunny Art Traders and a photograph of the artist with the artwork. Private Commission through Warmun Traditional Artists, WA Cat No. NAT041 Private Collection, NSW Notes above don't match certificate provenance recorded below?
- Exhibited
- Written in the Land-The Life of Queenie McKenzie, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, March 2009 Black Art White Walls – The Anne and Adrian Newstead Collection (Australian regional gallery tour): Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga NSW, 23 January – 30 March 2014 Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW, 7 April – 12 June 2014 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong Vic, 4 September – 8 October 2014 Moree Plains Gallery, Moree NSW, 1 December 2014 – 29 January 2015 Manning Regional Gallery, Taree NSW, 30 January – 15 March 2015 Burrinja Regional Gallery, Upwey Vic, 4 July – 28 September 2015 Brunswick Regional Gallery, Brunswick Vic, 16 October – 8 November 2015 Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra Qld, 20 January – 28 February 2016 O Tempo dos Sonhos – The Time of Dreaming (Arte Aborígene Contemporânea da Austrália), Caixa Cultural Foundation & Casa Fiat de Cultura, touring 2018 – 2024: Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Brasília, Salvador, Recife, Uberlândia Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba Uruguay: Montevideo
- Artwork story
- In a radical departure from her usual country works, Queenie presents a rare view of the Three Sisters from the Blue Mountains of NSW. So taken was she with the breath-taking scenery when visiting that she declared ‘I must paint this’. It was said by the elders that these three hills far from the Kimberley were what made some skin groups. It was not uncommon for elders to talk about the connections that existed from one side of the country to the other