FLOODWATER DREAMING, 1999

Important Aboriginal + Oceanic Art
Melbourne
18 May 2011
138

GEORGE WALLABY

(1930 - 2001)
FLOODWATER DREAMING, 1999

natural ochre and pigments on canvas

90.0 x 120.0 cm

inscribed verso: artist’s name, size and Red Rock Art cat. KP701

Estimate: 
$4,000 - 6,000
Provenance

Red Rock Art, Kununurra
Private collection, Western Australia

Catalogue text

This painting is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Red Rock Art which states: 'The artist's bush name is Barragoo (meaning Lake Gregory) his dreaming is floodwater. He was born is the northern part of the Great Sandy Desert where the Sturt Creek flows into Lake Gregory. Every wet season when the rains come Sturt Creek fills and begins to flow filling up thousands of waterholes along the way, widening as it makes its way into the Great Sandy Desert then it stops abruptly as it fills Lake Gregory. The painting shows a myriad of connecting channels and full waterholes – depicted with the inner circle, these waterholes will become crucial sources of food and water when the water recedes in the dry years that might follow.'