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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: Billy Atkins (Yunkurra), Untitled

Billy Atkins (Yunkurra) Australian, Putijarra, c 1930's-2021

Untitled
acrylic on linen
76 x 122 cm
821965
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'Some people paint a rockhole, only rockhole. Nothing. I got story. Jukurrpa. Full up....' This painting depicts Kumpupirntly (Lake Disappointment) out in the Canning Stock Route area. It is a...
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"Some people paint a rockhole, only rockhole. Nothing. I got story. Jukurrpa. Full up...." This painting depicts Kumpupirntly (Lake Disappointment) out in the Canning Stock Route area. It is a large warla (salt lake) that holds great significance for the artist. This is where the Ngayurnangalku (cannibal beings) live under the surface of the lake. If you dig in the lake and disturb them the beings rise up like a man “If they dig him up, anybody, blackfella, whitefellas they’ll get killed! They’ll have a good feed!”
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