Title
Minyi Puru
2008
Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Newman
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Western Australia
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Australia
- Date
- 2008
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 124.7 x 298.0 x 3.2 cm
- Credit
- D G Wilson Bequest Fund 2008
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 350.2008
- Copyright
- © Jakayu Biljabu/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Jakayu Biljabu
Works in the collection
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About
Information provided by Martumili Artists:
This painting is a map of where Jakayu was born. Jakayu grew up around Bidu and Nyilangkurr. Bidu is not in the painting. She has painted Nyilangkurr as she moved onto there during her childhood with her mother and father. Yilkarr is Jakayu's fathers resting place and Wantili is a claypan on the other side of Nyilangkurr.
Wantili is represented by the dark brown dots in the middle of the painting. The rows of lines represent the tali (sand hills), the salt lake at Yilkarr and Nyilangkurr (three big sand hills all together). The circles represent all the water holes including the Wantili Clay pan.
The story for this painting was collected and written by Morika and Rennette Biljabu, Jakayu's granddaughters.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Kandinsky-related collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Oct 2023–04 Feb 2024
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales annual report 2008–09, 'Collections: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art', pg. 22-25, Sydney, 2009, 23, 24.
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