Title
Dhuwa and Yirritja Animals
1960
Artist
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Details
- Other Title
- Dua & Jiridja animals
- Place where the work was made
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Goyder River
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Central Arnhem Land
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Northern Territory
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Australia
- Date
- 1960
- Media category
- Bark painting
- Materials used
- natural pigments on bark
- Dimensions
- 108.5 x 37.5 cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Stuart Scougall 1961
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- IA7.1961
- Copyright
- © Estate of Makani Wilingarr/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Makani Wilingarr
Works in the collection
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About
In 'Dhuwa and Yirritja animals' 1960 numerous figurative elements appear embedded within country, their forms somewhat hidden within the vast miny’tji (clan designs) of country. The undulating form of a serpent gently dissects the composition, with further divisions created to both sides by discrete line work. Within these sections figurative elements are literally attached to the land, their forms barely distinct from the patch of miny’tji to which they are connected. The use of multi-directional cross-hatching to create this patchwork results in a field of shimmering brilliance.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Purchases and Acquisitions for 1961, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 04 Apr 1962–25 May 1962
Gamarada, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 Nov 1996–16 Feb 1997
Art from Milingimbi: taking memories back, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 12 Nov 2016–29 Jan 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Edmund Capon AM, OBE, Steven Miller, Tony Tuckson, James Scougall, Mollie Gowing, Harry Messel, Craig Brush, Ronald Fine, Alison Fine, Gordon Davies, Rosalind Davies, Christopher Hodges, Helen Eager, Rosemary Gow, Sandra Phillips, Daphne Wallace and Ken Watson, Gamarada, Sydney, 1996, 37 (colour illus.).
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Cara Pinchbeck, Art from Milingimbi, ‘Makani’, pg. 102-115, Sydney, 2016, 113 (colour illus.), 142.
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