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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Weaver Jack, Desert Way, Bush Side

Weaver Jack Australian, Yulparia, c.1928 -2010

Desert Way, Bush Side
acrylic on linen
106.5 x 60 cm
786233
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'This desert way, bush side. People sleeping then walking. Morningtime, all the people gone, all walking. We sit down near that jila (living water) in wind break. My grandma, my...
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"This desert way, bush side. People sleeping then walking. Morningtime, all the people gone, all walking. We sit down near that jila (living water) in wind break. My grandma, my sister, my husband all the uncles, mother, father too all in this country. I been grow up in this one been come young woman here." Weaver Jack

This painting shows Weaver and her traditional country in the Great Sandy Desert in W.A. near the Percival Lakes and Well 33 of the Canning Stock route. Since returning to country in 2006 for the first time since her people walked out in the late 1960s Weaver has been placing herself back amongst this terrain as the t shaped green form.
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