Click to enlargec.1922 – 1994
- Region
- Western Desert
- Community
- Wirrimanu (Balgo)
- Language group
- Kukatja
Purrungu, Near Kiwikurra in the Great Sandy Desert, 1993
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
75 x 50 cm
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- Provenance
- Warlayirti Artists, Balgo, WA, Cat No. 76/93 Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW Private Collection NSW
- Exhibited
- Warlayirti Artists Homelands, Cooee Aboriginal Art Gallery, NSW, 1993 Black Art White Walls – The Anne and Adrian Newstead Collection (Australian regional gallery tour): Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Wahroonga NSW, 23 January – 30 March 2014 Wagga Wagga Regional Gallery, Wagga Wagga NSW, 7 April – 12 June 2014 Walker Street Gallery, Dandenong Vic, 4 September – 8 October 2014 Moree Plains Gallery, Moree NSW, 1 December 2014 – 29 January 2015 Manning Regional Gallery, Taree NSW, 30 January – 15 March 2015 Burrinja Regional Gallery, Upwey Vic, 4 July – 28 September 2015 Brunswick Regional Gallery, Brunswick Vic, 16 October – 8 November 2015 Caloundra Regional Gallery, Caloundra Qld, 20 January – 28 February 2016 O Tempo dos Sonhos – The Time of Dreaming (Arte Aborígene Contemporânea da Austrália), Caixa Cultural Foundation & Casa Fiat de Cultura, touring 2018 – 2024: Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Brasília, Salvador, Recife, Uberlândia Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba Uruguay: Montevideo
- Artwork story
- This is Milliga's Country and she spent the first half of her life roaming this part of the desert. This painting depicts the food trees that are available around Purrungu rockhole.