Kurrkuminti, 1996

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

85 x 75 cm

$1,200

Provenance: Steve Culley - Desert Designs
Artwork story: ‘Jilji and Kirkuminti,thats where the desert sandhills meet.They form hollows and ridges where there is shelter’ For people who wore no clothes fire ws an important for keeping warm in the cold months,especially at night.Aboriginal people lay on the sand within a kurrkuminti,deep natural hollows created by the braiding of the crests of sandunes -jilji Jimmy Pike’s Walmajirri aesthetic and spiritual roots are firmly based on key visual and life-sustaining features.The Walmajirri people’s traditional landscape is a layering of surfaces combining intimatelydetailed tangible features,imbued with profound and powerful spiritual dimensions created through activities of the great founding spirits that lived in the Dreamtime and created the Land

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c.1940 – 2002

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

85 x 75 cm

$1,200

Provenance: Steve Culley - Desert Designs
Artwork story: ‘Jilji and Kirkuminti,thats where the desert sandhills meet.They form hollows and ridges where there is shelter’ For people who wore no clothes fire ws an important for keeping warm in the cold months,especially at night.Aboriginal people lay on the sand within a kurrkuminti,deep natural hollows created by the braiding of the crests of sandunes -jilji Jimmy Pike’s Walmajirri aesthetic and spiritual roots are firmly based on key visual and life-sustaining features.The Walmajirri people’s traditional landscape is a layering of surfaces combining intimatelydetailed tangible features,imbued with profound and powerful spiritual dimensions created through activities of the great founding spirits that lived in the Dreamtime and created the Land