HECTOR JANDANAY - UNTITLED

 HECTOR JANDANAY
UNTITLED,  1994
68 x 96cm, frame 71 x 99cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Canvas
 
PROVENANCE
Warmun, WA
Cooee Art Gallery, NSWPrivate Collection, VICCooee Art Gallery, Sydney, NSW 
 
STORY
At the time of his death in 2007, Hector Jandany was the oldest member of the Warmun artists, at Turkey Creek. His family history was littered with harrowing tales of persecution. Gadiya (white people) shot his grandfather and harmed his grandmother, who subsequently died in childbirth and, while Hector was still in infancy, his father also died in confrontation with white people. Though his mother remarried a stockman, whom Hector admired, it was his motherā€™s country, the Bungle Bungles (Purnululu), that became the primary source of his artistic inspiration when he took up painting late in his life.