This Place My Country (framed), 2003

Linocut - Hand wiped and rolled 8 colour relief print

$1,700

Production notes: Block created at Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills WA, June 2002. Print published at Bungendore NSW, April 2003
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: Helicopter has painted some of his traditional country, which is located far to the south west of Balgo, in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is centred around Jupiter Well and is dominated by tali or sand hills. “These lines made by wind are tali (sand hills). Kurli, good wind, brings warm weather. Not rubbish wind, yalta (cold wind), maybe kill babies and old people. Lovely time of year, birds everywhere, everything growing, boys and girls running amok. This soak, living water, we call yinta, really full up when rains come. These white stones, mawuntu, special place; ceremony place.”

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b. c.1947

Region: Western Desert
Community: Wirrimanu (Balgo)
Language group: Manyjilyjarra; Kukatja; Wangkajunga (Wangkatjunga, Wangkajungka)

Linocut - Hand wiped and rolled 8 colour relief print

$1,700

Production notes: Block created at Warlayirti Artists, Balgo Hills WA, June 2002. Print published at Bungendore NSW, April 2003
Exhibited: Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
Artwork story: Helicopter has painted some of his traditional country, which is located far to the south west of Balgo, in the Great Sandy Desert. This country is centred around Jupiter Well and is dominated by tali or sand hills. “These lines made by wind are tali (sand hills). Kurli, good wind, brings warm weather. Not rubbish wind, yalta (cold wind), maybe kill babies and old people. Lovely time of year, birds everywhere, everything growing, boys and girls running amok. This soak, living water, we call yinta, really full up when rains come. These white stones, mawuntu, special place; ceremony place.”