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A study of the Figurative in Desert painting: Figurative painting from the desert

Past exhibition
21 June - 18 August 2013
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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Weaver Jack, Lungarung

Weaver Jack Australian, Yulparia, c.1928 -2010

Lungarung
acrylic on linen
106.5 x 60 cm
786542
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'This is me, this is mine. The whole lot is me (she points to the x mark in the painting). I bin walking all around, I know him proper way,...
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"This is me, this is mine. The whole lot is me (she points to the x mark in the painting). I bin walking all around, I know him proper way, he is always here. (Clasps her heart). We are same one, my country is me. He long way that way, but he still here." - Weaver Jack
In many of the works, Weaver places a cross. At first, it was presumed to be a signature, but it is actually a self-representation. It acts as a trigger to help understand that she and her land, Lungarung, are one. For her it is a self-portrait in country. She is one mark of many, but she is unique, like the country. Weaver Jack primarily paints her traditional country south of Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route. When she 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.
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