LORNA NAPARRULA FENCER - BOOMERANG
LORNA NAPARRULA FENCER
BOOMERANG, 1998
150 x 100 cm
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
REGION
Lajamanu, NT
PROVENANCE
Katherine Art Gallery, NT Cat No. P-923
Cooee Art, NSW
Artback, NT
Private Collection, NSW
STORY
Lorna Napurrula Fencer was a senior Warlpiri artist born at Yartulu Yartulu. She was custodian of the inherited lands of Yumurrpa in the Tanami Desert. She began painting in the mid 1980s and is now widely acknowledged as one of the great Warlpiri artists from Lajamanu. She was a custodian of the Dreamings associated with bush potato, caterpillar, bush onion, yam, bush tomato, bush plum, many different seeds, and, importantly, water.
This painting tells the Dreamtime story of men of the Tjupurrula and Tjakamarra skin groups hunting for foods to eat. They are shown disguised amongst their boomerangs in this lively and expressive work by an artist for whom these skin groups are brother and father.
This work was featured in the artist's posthumous touring retrospective exhibition, Yulyurlu.
EXHIBITED
Yulyurlu Lorna Fencer Napurrurla', retrospective touring exhibition and catalogue, Margie West, Page 112
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