JACK BRITTEN - GOONDARRINYARRIN – PURNULULU
JACK BRITTEN
GOONDARRINYARRIN – PURNULULU, 2001
60 x 90 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Canvas
REGION
Warmun, WA
PROVENANCE
Warmun Art Centre Cat No. WAC 1265/01
The Alec O'Halloran & Helen Zimmerman Collection, NSW
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
Jack Britten was born and spent his childhood at Tickelara Station, in the north west of Australia, at a time when many Gija people were massacred during the gold rush at Hall’s Creek and Chinaman’s Garden in the East Kimberley region.
The site is on the Old Hann Springs cattle station where Jack once worked as a stockman. Depicted are the high 'top country' where cattle and wild animals grazed side by side. Also shown is the black limestone ridge (Booloo) that traverses the landscape and the caves (Nawanji) which contain the remains of ritually interred ancestors.
EXHIBITED
Inspired: Collectors Edition, April 2023, Cooee Art | Redfern
ARTIST PROFILE
