Caterpillar, 1996

synthetic polymer paint on linen

132 x 126.5 cm

$6,500

Provenance: Katherine Art Gallery, Katherine, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
Exhibited: The Bright, The Bold & The Beautiful, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, March 2012
Artwork story: This painting tells a story of women heading into the bush collecting bush tucker.The women would travel all day in large groups,singing and dancing as they collected food to take back to their large families at the campsite.The women quite often come across a caterpillar that they call the ‘cheeky one’. This is because this particular caterpillar constantly bites the women while they are picking fruit making them quite itchy.These caterpillars are luminous green in colour with bright eyes. In this painting the artist has depicted the home of the caterpillar in the Tanami Desert,NT. The Dreaming track,or songline runs through the artist’s country and she is one of the most important custodians of the story.The landscape is portrayed as abundant and full of flowers in bloom.

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c.1924–1925 – 2006

synthetic polymer paint on linen

132 x 126.5 cm

$6,500

Provenance: Katherine Art Gallery, Katherine, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW
Exhibited: The Bright, The Bold & The Beautiful, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, March 2012
Artwork story: This painting tells a story of women heading into the bush collecting bush tucker.The women would travel all day in large groups,singing and dancing as they collected food to take back to their large families at the campsite.The women quite often come across a caterpillar that they call the ‘cheeky one’. This is because this particular caterpillar constantly bites the women while they are picking fruit making them quite itchy.These caterpillars are luminous green in colour with bright eyes. In this painting the artist has depicted the home of the caterpillar in the Tanami Desert,NT. The Dreaming track,or songline runs through the artist’s country and she is one of the most important custodians of the story.The landscape is portrayed as abundant and full of flowers in bloom.