Artist: Goody Barratt | Title: Dingo Dreaming | Year: 2002 | Medium: natural earth pigment on canvas | Dimensions: 121 x 80 cm
PROVENANCE
Raft Artspace, Darwin NT. Catalogue No. GB 82002-34.
Private Collection, Sydney
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Kimberley, WA
LANGUAGE
Gija/Gidja
BIOGRAPHY
Goody Barrett is a senior Gija woman who was born on Lissadell Station to the north of Turkey Creek in the East Kimberley in Western Australia about 1930. Her real Gija name is Lilwayi and her skin is Nyawurru. In the last thirty years the country on Lissadell Station has undergone massive destruction on two counts. It is party under the water of Lake Argyle formed by the damming of the Ord River and it is also the site of the Argyle Diamond Mine which has demolished a complete dreaming place. Most of Goody Barrett's pictures show Dreamings and places where she walked in the bush on Lissadell when she was a child. Because of the impact of the mine on the country, she often paints the Dreamings associated with the area.
PROVENANCE
Raft Artspace, Darwin NT. Catalogue No. GB 82002-34.
Private Collection, Sydney
Artist Profile
COMMUNITY/REGION
Kimberley, WA
LANGUAGE
Gija/Gidja
BIOGRAPHY
Goody Barrett is a senior Gija woman who was born on Lissadell Station to the north of Turkey Creek in the East Kimberley in Western Australia about 1930. Her real Gija name is Lilwayi and her skin is Nyawurru. In the last thirty years the country on Lissadell Station has undergone massive destruction on two counts. It is party under the water of Lake Argyle formed by the damming of the Ord River and it is also the site of the Argyle Diamond Mine which has demolished a complete dreaming place. Most of Goody Barrett's pictures show Dreamings and places where she walked in the bush on Lissadell when she was a child. Because of the impact of the mine on the country, she often paints the Dreamings associated with the area.