This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole site of Ngaminya, just to the south-west of the Kiwirrkura Community in Western Australia. A group of ancestral women made camp at this site before travelling to the rockhole site of Wirrulnga, east of the Kiwirrkura Community.
Provenance
Painted for Desert Masters, Australia
Lawsons Auctioneers, 26-01-21, Lot 5014, Leichhardt, Australia
Private collection, The Netherlands
Exhibited
'Interwoven Worlds', SmithDavidson Gallery X Wolterinck Laren, Laren, The Netherlands, 2025
'Ladies from Papunya', SmithDavidson Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2024
'Papunya 50 Years, 1971 – 2021', SmithDavidson Gallery Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2021
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