Old Texas Downs - 1995
90 x 120 cm
natural earth pigments and natural binders on canvas
Code #:11407
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Provenance
Halls Creek Arts Centre, WA
Private Collection
Cooee Aboriginal Art, Sydney, NSW
Nancy Sever Gallery, ACT
Story
This paintings depicts the Texas Downs Station, east of Warmun strongly connected to the artist’s early life: “I bin born Old Texas, dat called Salt Pan country. Salt water you gotta drinkim’. No more goodfella water, all salt – bitter. I bin born la dat country.”
Queenie spent her childhood and much of her adult life working as a goat herder and later as a cook in the mustering camps of Texas Downs. Cattle were mustered at the station and driven across to the abattoirs at Wyndham. The hills of Old Texas are a good place to collect the white quartz used for spearheads, “Dat white stone from the hill, they break ‘im up for spear. Good spear dat one.”
Queenie spent her childhood and much of her adult life working as a goat herder and, later, as a cook in the mustering camps of Texas Downs. Cattle was mustered at the station and driven across to the abattoirs at Wyndham. The hills of Old Texas are a good place to collect the white quartz used for spearheads. ‘Dat white stone from the hill, they break ‘im up for spear. Good spear dat one.’
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