LLOYD KWILLA - KULAWA - RAINY SEASON

LLOYD KWILLA
KULAWA - RAINY SEASON,  2010
140 x 100 cm
natural earth pigments on canvas
 
REGION
Kimberley, WA
 
PROVENANCE
Red Rock Gallery 
 
STORY
The artist has spent most of his life in his traditional country on the Northern fringes of the Great Sandy Desert Northern Western Australia. His father Billy  Joongoorra Thomas Karnta Karnta) has taught him a great deal about the  land and its features. This painting shows a small waterhole close to the canning stock route called 'Kulyayi' all around are Sandhills 'Tali' that are ablaze with wildfire.
 
EXHIBITED
Director’s Summer Picks, January 2012, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
 
ARTIST PROFILE
LLOYD KWILLA