Boomerang, 1999

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

127 x 100 cm

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Provenance: Katherine Art Gallery, Katherine, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Artback NT, Darwin, NT
Exhibited: Yulyurlu – Lorna Fencer Napurrurla (Artback NT touring exhibition, curated by Margie West): Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT, 3 – 28 August 2011 Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra ACT, 10 November – 18 December 2011 Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide SA, 13 April – 26 May 2012 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Vic, 29 June – 25 August 2012 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW, 28 September – 18 November 2012 Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin Qld, 29 November 2012 – 20 January 2013 Artspace Mackay, Mackay Qld, 1 February – 17 March 2013 Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine NT, 5 April – 17 May 2013
Literature / Illustrated: West, Margie (ed.), *Yulyurlu: Lorna Fencer Napurrurla*, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2011, p. 81
Artwork story: This painting tells the Dreamtime story of men of the Tjupurrula and Tjakamarra skin groups who are hunting for foods to eat. They are shown here disguised amongst their boomerangs in this rather lively and expressive work by the artist for whom these skin groups are brother and father.

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c.1924–1925 – 2006

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

127 x 100 cm

Price on application — enquire

Provenance: Katherine Art Gallery, Katherine, NT Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Artback NT, Darwin, NT
Exhibited: Yulyurlu – Lorna Fencer Napurrurla (Artback NT touring exhibition, curated by Margie West): Chan Contemporary Art Space, Darwin NT, 3 – 28 August 2011 Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra ACT, 10 November – 18 December 2011 Flinders University City Gallery, Adelaide SA, 13 April – 26 May 2012 RMIT Gallery, Melbourne Vic, 29 June – 25 August 2012 Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst NSW, 28 September – 18 November 2012 Noosa Regional Gallery, Tewantin Qld, 29 November 2012 – 20 January 2013 Artspace Mackay, Mackay Qld, 1 February – 17 March 2013 Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre, Katherine NT, 5 April – 17 May 2013
Literature / Illustrated: West, Margie (ed.), *Yulyurlu: Lorna Fencer Napurrurla*, Wakefield Press, Kent Town, South Australia, 2011, p. 81
Artwork story: This painting tells the Dreamtime story of men of the Tjupurrula and Tjakamarra skin groups who are hunting for foods to eat. They are shown here disguised amongst their boomerangs in this rather lively and expressive work by the artist for whom these skin groups are brother and father.