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Click to enlargec.1935 / mid-late 1920s – 2018
- Region
- Central Desert & Tanami
- Community
- Lajamanu
- Language group
- Warlpiri
First Love, 2002
screenprint: opaque paint on four acetates in two versions (black and red ochre backgrounds)
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- Printer
- Simon White
- Studio
- Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
- Paper
- Magnani Pescia 300gsm
- Paper size
- 76 x 56 cm
- Image size
- 68 x 48 cm
- AAPN
- RT015
- Production notes
- Acetates created at Lajamanu NT, July 2002. Print published Darwin NT, November 2002.
- Exhibited
- Yilpinji: Love Art and Ceremony, Australian Museum, Sydney; toured nationally and internationally (Australia, United States and Europe), 2002–2003. Curated by Dr Christine Nicholls; coordinated by Adrian Newstead for the Australian Art Print Network.
- Artwork story
- The woman makes a Majardi , love belt, and sings her love spell in to it. She knows that once her man puts the belt around her waist he will think of himself as her lover. The woman brings it for the man to put around her waist. She takes up her digging stick and her lover grabs his shield and they run away together in to the bush. They light a fire and lie alongside one another as boy friend and girl friend. The people of the tribe gather looking around the bush for the lovers. They run away but are seen traveling along together as a couple.