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KURUWARRIYINGATHI BIJARRB PAULA PAUL - FISH TRAPS

KURUWARRIYINGATHI BIJARRB PAULA PAUL - FISH TRAPS

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KURUWARRIYINGATHI BIJARRB PAULA PAUL

FISH TRAPS,  2005
91 x 122 cm
acrylic on linen

 

PROVENANCE

Mornington Island Arts and Crafts, Qld, Cat No. 2425-L-PP-0707
Private Collection, WA

 

STORY

The artist has painted her Bentinck Island homeland as a flat diamond shape surrounded by a massive tracing of stone ngurruwarr (fish walls designed to trap fish and turtles as the tides fall). These constructed walls appear in the lower right of the painting. Bburrkund (cicatrice) motifs, seen in this work as vibrant trajectories of colour, signify the first body scars of young male initiates, and those of women who are cut during mourning ceremonies. Paula also references the cockleshells Kaiadilt women gather and line up in pleasing patterns in the ashes as they cook them.

 

    AU$6,000.00Price

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