LUNGARUNG, 2006

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
4 April 2012
15

WEAVER JACK

(c.1928 - 2010)
LUNGARUNG, 2006

synthetic polymer paint on canvas

167.5 x 121.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist's name, date, medium, size and Short Street Gallery cat. 3636

Estimate: 
$8,000 - 12,000
Provenance

Short Street Gallery, Broome
William Mora Galleries, Melbourne (stamped verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

Exhibited

Weaver Jack: Recent Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, 4–28 March 2008

Catalogue text

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short Street Gallery, which states: 'This is my country, Lungarung country. It is on the Canning Stock Route in the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia. This is where I was born, I travelled around this place as a young woman walking through the sand dunes (tali) collecting bushfood (Mayi) with my mother. We hunted kuwi and sat down there. We didn't have clothes then. I had two brothers. It is this side (west side) of Winpa in Western Australia. It is desert country, proper one, it is my country. We get him bush onion (junta) near the jila. We sing for him and there is plenty there. We grind him up and cook him, he is good mungarri (bush tucker) There are warla (mud flats) there.'