JACK BRITTEN - PURNULULU

JACK BRITTEN
Purnululu
100 x 66 cm | Image Size
103.5 x 76 cm | Paper Size
limited edition screenprint on paper
Edition on 37
 
REGION
Warmun, WA
 
PROVENANCE
Gallery Gondwana Fine Art, NT
Private Collection, NT
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.
 
ARTIST PROFILE
JACK BRITTEN