Artist: England Bangala | Title: Banda - Long-necked Tortoise | Year: 1988 | Medium: natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark | Dimensions: 67 x 34 cm

PROVENANCE
Lawsons, Sydney, February, 1990
The Collection of Milton and Alma Roxanas, Sydney,
Bonhams, May 2014, Lot No. 42

POA
Email adrian@newsteadart.com to enquire about this work.

ARTIST PROFILE

COMMUNITY/ REGION
Central Arnhem Land

LANGUAGE
Burarra, Gun-nartpa dialect

BIOGRAPHY
England Bangala grew up in the Milingimbi Mission in Central Arnhem Land and attended school spasmodically before working as a farmer and carpenter on his remote outstation Gochan Jiny-jirra (Cadell Gardens), and then later travelled west to work as a buffalo shooter in the west around Oenpelli… Continue Reading