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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Bonnie Connelly, Ngurra Tjalaku, 2021

Bonnie Connelly Australian, Ngaanyatjarra, b. c. 1936

Ngurra Tjalaku, 2021
acrylic on canvas
76.2 x 101.5 cm
21-714KA
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Bonnie uses a dry brush to apply colour in travelling formations across the canvas, evoking the textured desert landscape where she has spent her life. Bonnie was born near Blackstone...
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Bonnie uses a dry brush to apply colour in travelling formations across the canvas, evoking the textured desert landscape where she has spent her life. Bonnie was born near Blackstone in Western Australia and has spent time travelling widely across the remote Ngaanyatjarra lands. Her paintings draw heavily on her strong cultural history, geographic knowledge, and extensive network of familial relations, which snake throughout the desert.

In this work, Bonnie paints a Tjukurpa (Dreaming) story about a man who was hunting out near Kaltukatjara, the community where she now lives. Bonnie depicts the caves that are found just through the gap in the big mountain ranges, where women go digging for honey ants.
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