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Click to enlargeSale 1 · Lot 28
c.1940 – 2022
- Region
- APY Lands
- Community
- Kalka
- Language group
- Ngaanyatjarra; Pitjantjatjara
Wati Kutjara Wanampi, 2015
153 x 122 cm
Est. $6,000 – $8,000
- Provenance
- Ninuku Arts, NT, Cat No. 15-73 Art Mob, Tas, Cat No. AM 14671/17 Private Collection, Tas
- Artwork story
- Jimmy Donegan's paintings depict ancestral stories, mostly focusing on his paternal heritage. His father was from Dulu, a rock hole in the Gibson Desert well known for dingo packs and spiritually associated with the Dingo Dreaming (Papa Tjukurpa). His grandfather's country is Pukara, a sacred men's site south of Irrunytju that is closely associated with the story of the two snake men (Wati Wanampi Kutjara). Though he first painted in 2001, Donegan gained greater renown after joining Ninuku Arts, when it was established in 2006. His painting Papa Tjukurpa munu Pukara won the National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award in 2010.