HECTOR JANDANY - UNTITLED
HECTOR JANDANY
UNTITLED, 1987
120 x 120 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Board
REGION
Warmun, WA
PROVENANCE
Kimberley Art, VIC
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 mother’s country, the Bungle Bungles (Purnululu), that became the primary source of his artistic inspiration when he took up painting late in his life.
EXHIBITED
"That's True that's Creation", August 2022, Cooee Art | Redfern
ARTIST PROFILE
