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Puturr, near the Stanshore Ran… | 681/92
Acrylic on Canvas
180 x 120cm | 70.9 x 47.2in
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This is Lucy Yukenbarri’s Dreaming Country as she was born and raised near here. This painting depicts a lot of women in the Dreamtime who lived in this area.
They travelled widely over this country looking for bush foods such as small animals, snakes, lizards, berries, roots and seeds.
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Marpa | 71/93
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 85cm | 47.2 x 33.5in
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This is Lucy’s country and she spent her early years here. She has an intimate knowledge of its features and its laws and myths.
This painting shows some of the features and Lucy says that good food and water can be found. This area was used by women as a dancing place during the dreamtime.
The area is still a sacred place.
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Acrylic on Canvas
Mappa Rockhole | 177/95
Acrylic on Canvas
120 x 80cm | 47.2 x 31.5in
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This is a depiction of a waterhole known as Mappa in the artits’s country. It is a scene of collecting bush tucker and burning off of country in order to catch game. Lucy is one of the senior law women for the Tjukulpa (Dreamtime) law and stories associated with this place.
Lucy lived in this part desert as a young girl with her family and has an intimate knowledge of the land features and the plentiful supply of water and bush foods found here.
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Acrylic on Canvas
Flying Ant Dreaming | 60/92
Acrylic on Canvas
91 x 61cm | 35.8 x 24in
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This painting depicts Wartunuma of Flying Ant Dreaming for this area marked by its flat, sandy plains. The artist grew up in these parts and remembers going out to collect foods such as purra and kamitji.
The cave is a sacred place for women’s law and the artist is one of the custodians of this Law. Smoke is used as part of the associated rituals.
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Acrylic on Canvas
Yanulli, in the Great Sandy De… | 267/95
Acrylic on Canvas
75 x 50cm | 29.5 x 19.7in
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This is a depiction of a waterhole known as Winbullulla in the artist’s country. It is a scene of collecting bush tucker and burning off of country in order to catch game. Lucy is one of the senior law women for the Tjukulpa (Dreamtime) law and stories associated with this place.
Lucy lived in this part desert as a young girl with her family and has an intimate knowledge of the land features and the plentiful supply of water and bush foods found here.