Untitled, 1994

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

90 x 60 cm

Est. $2,500 – $3,500

Hammer $2,400

Provenance: Field Collected by the Luma Community Development Manager, Denise Goldie, 1994
Artwork story: The jila, the permanent waterhole, was the organising fact of Walmajarri life in the Great Sandy Desert — not a landscape feature but the structuring point of an entire world. This canvas, acquired directly from the artist in the same transaction as its companion in this sale, belongs to that first concentrated period of work in the early 1990s. At the centre, a small circle sits entirely alone, ringed by a second closed oval that does not touch it. It is the third line that opens the composition outward, connecting into a broader system of flowing bands that carry to the canvas edges, each traced in a continuous register of dark dots. The two innermost forms seem held rather than generated, enclosed within a field that moves around them. At upper right, a sinuous line curls and doubles back on itself, the one moment of looseness in an otherwise deliberate structure.

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Sale 3 · Lot 31

c.1924 / c.1926 – 2013

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

90 x 60 cm

Est. $2,500 – $3,500

Hammer $2,400

Provenance: Field Collected by the Luma Community Development Manager, Denise Goldie, 1994
Artwork story: The jila, the permanent waterhole, was the organising fact of Walmajarri life in the Great Sandy Desert — not a landscape feature but the structuring point of an entire world. This canvas, acquired directly from the artist in the same transaction as its companion in this sale, belongs to that first concentrated period of work in the early 1990s. At the centre, a small circle sits entirely alone, ringed by a second closed oval that does not touch it. It is the third line that opens the composition outward, connecting into a broader system of flowing bands that carry to the canvas edges, each traced in a continuous register of dark dots. The two innermost forms seem held rather than generated, enclosed within a field that moves around them. At upper right, a sinuous line curls and doubles back on itself, the one moment of looseness in an otherwise deliberate structure.