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Weaver Jack Australian, Yulparia, c.1928 -2010

Lungarung
acrylic on linen
106.5 x 106 cm
784694
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Lungarung is Weaver's birthplace it is north of Winpa country and close to Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert in W.A. When Weaver first...
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Lungarung is Weaver's birthplace it is north of Winpa country and close to Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert in W.A.

When Weaver first started to paint, the outlines of the country were laid bare on the canvas. Like a skeleton of the country, slowly she reclaimed this country dotting over it, loosely at first. She said these where her people walking all around that country, collecting mayi (bush food) and hunting for kuwi (meat). Slowly, the country merged with the people. It was then she started putting herself in the paintings,and through her painting, Weaver managed to reclaim her country. Each turn of her brush captures the intimacy in which she knows her subject. It is an intimacy that is almost impossible to comprehend. It is an extension of herself. She takes discordant colours which represent all the things she eats, and the seemingly disordered is transformed and placed very deliberately in its right place, revealing its perfection. For Weaver, she and her land are inseparable: they are the same. We realise this does not fit in with conventional western views of portraiture, but portraiture is about extending our perceptions of who we are. To understand Weaver, one must know her land, because they exist together and define each other.
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