QUEENIE MCKENZIE - GOOWARA WARRA - MY CORROBORREE

QUEENIE MCKENZIE
GOOWARA WARRA - MY CORROBORREE,  1997
90 x 60cm
natural earth pigments on canvas
 
REGION
Turkey Creek, WA
 
PROVENANCE
Narrangunny Art Traders, W.A
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
 
 
STORY
From a young age Queenie embraced the Christian evangelists and their messages, and as a result became deeply religious.

Her ’own’ corrobboree relates to her fantasy of what it would be like if Mary and baby Jesus descended from the heavens to meet the people on her beloved Texas Downs.
 
EXHIBITED
‘A Fairy’s Tail’ exhibition at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery NSW 2009/2010
Passing On Tradition - New and Old Kimberley, June 2010, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
Written in the Land-The Life of Queenie McKenzie, March 2009,
 
ARTIST PROFILE
QUEENIE MCKENZIE