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Click to enlargec.1924–1925 – 2006
- Region
- Central Desert & Tanami
- Community
- Lajamanu
- Language group
- Warlpiri
My Country - Water Dreaming, c.1997
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
130 x 100 cm
$2,500
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- Provenance
- Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu, NT Fireworks Gallery, Brisbane, Qld, Cat No. FW6139 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
- Exhibited
- Fireworks Gallery Women's Exhibition c.2006
- Artwork story
- Lorna Fencer (1924-2006) was a famous Lajamanu painter, from a group of Warlpiri people who were forcibly removed from the Yuendumu settlement in the 1950s in order to relieve the growing population pressures in a very small desert community. Lorna inherited the Warlpiri stories, of Yumurrpa and Wapatali, the big bush potato and little bush potato, locked for eternity and a battle over country. The ancestors drew out the primal yam from the underground water source.