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Click to enlarge- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Wirrimanu (Balgo)
- Language group
- Kukatja
My Country, 1999
synthetic polymer paint on linen
100 x 150 cm
$5,000
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- Provenance
- Warlayirti Artists, Balgo, WA, Cat No. 527/99 Private Collection NSW Private Collection Vic
- Artwork story
- Lucy Yukenbarri was among the last generation of Kukatja women to live traditionally in the bush before settling at Balgo Hills in the northwestern reaches of the Tanami Desert. She began painting in 1989 with assistance from her husband, Helicopter Joe, as they explored their vast knowledge of the waterholes in the Great Sandy Desert. In time they each developed their own style. Lucy's single colour fields of dotting gave way to paintings in which her dots converged, creating dense masses of pigment on the surface of the canvas. Her distinctive signature style created effects that were quite unique amongst her female desert contemporaries.