Untitled, 1994

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

90 x 60 cm

Est. $2,500 – $3,500

Hammer $3,600

Provenance: Field Collected by the Luma Community Development Manager, Denise Goldie, 1994
Artwork story: What changes between works is the distance from which country is seen. Elsewhere in his practice Mawukura brings the composition to a single site, or organises the waterhole into a repeating cellular structure as regular as a ground plan. This board takes the longer view. Six jila are distributed freely across a warm red-orange ground, each one a discrete unit: a waterhole at its centre, wrapped in a spiralling ochre band that describes both the site and the people camped at it, the whole traced throughout in white dots. Bands of ochre hold the top, bottom and side edges, giving the field a landscape orientation even as the eye moves between sites. It reads less like the map of a place and more like the memory of a journey between permanent waters, each one a place where people stopped.

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Sale 3 · Lot 82

c.1924 / c.1926 – 2013

synthetic polymer paint on canvas board

90 x 60 cm

Est. $2,500 – $3,500

Hammer $3,600

Provenance: Field Collected by the Luma Community Development Manager, Denise Goldie, 1994
Artwork story: What changes between works is the distance from which country is seen. Elsewhere in his practice Mawukura brings the composition to a single site, or organises the waterhole into a repeating cellular structure as regular as a ground plan. This board takes the longer view. Six jila are distributed freely across a warm red-orange ground, each one a discrete unit: a waterhole at its centre, wrapped in a spiralling ochre band that describes both the site and the people camped at it, the whole traced throughout in white dots. Bands of ochre hold the top, bottom and side edges, giving the field a landscape orientation even as the eye moves between sites. It reads less like the map of a place and more like the memory of a journey between permanent waters, each one a place where people stopped.