JACK BRITTEN - WARAMBOOJI - BUSH CREEPER

JACK BRITTEN
WARAMBOOJI - BUSH CREEPER,  1999
120 x 90 cm
natural earth pigments on linen
 
REGION
Warmun, WA
 
PROVENANCE
Narrangunny Art Traders, N.T
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.

'Sometimes they bin all day shootin people there,' Jack recalled in his later years, 'my father and mother and grandparents were with good gadiya (white man). I might have got shot if he didn’t look after me' (cited in Ryan 1993: 41).
 
EXHIBITED
Passing On Tradition - New and Old Kimberley, June 2010, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
 
ARTIST PROFILE
JACK BRITTEN