Deutscher and Hackett

Papunya Tula Artists, Alice Springs, Northern Territory
Private collection, Adelaide
Scott Livesey, Melbourne
Private collection, Melbourne
Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 2 December 2015, lot 183
Private collection, Melbourne
 

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Papunya Tula Artists which states:

'This painting depicts designs associated with Yunala, a rockhole and soakage water site situated among sandhills just to the west of the Kiwirrkura community in Western Australia. During ancestral times a group of women camped at this site after travelling further west. While at Yunala the women camped beside the rockhole, digging for the edible roots of the bush banana or silky pear vine Marsdenia australis, also known as yunala. The lines in this painting represent both the sandhills surrounding the site and the yunala. The women later continued their travels towards the east, passing through the Kiwirrkura area on their way to Wilkinkarra (Lake Mackay).'