JACK WUNUWUN - UNTITLED

JACK WUNUWUN
UNTITLED,  0.199
105 x 42 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Bark
 
REGION
Maningrida : NT
 
PROVENANCE
Maningrida Arts Cat No. WUN 31
Private Collection
Cooee Art Leven, NSW 
 
STORY
Jack Wunuwun's land is Mewirnbi, on the eastern side of the Blyth River near Cape Stewart in the Northern Territory. He was born in 1930 at around the time that the Australian Government declared Arnhem Land an Aboriginal reserve. He belongs to the Gangarl (Gang-ngal) clan of the Murrungun people of the Dhuwa moiety*

*from the MCA, Sydney
 
 
ARTIST PROFILE
JACK WUNUWUN