Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Painted in 2010
  Warakurna Artists, Western Australia
  Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
  Superannuation Fund of William Nuttall and Annette Reeves
  
  Cf. For a similar work by the artist in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria see Judith Ryan, Living Water: Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert, Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria, 2011, p.25.
  
  This painting is sold with accompanying Warakurna Artists documentation that reads in part: 'This painting is from Tommy's mother's and Uncle Tjunka Lewis's country. Tommy Mitchell says this painting is about Tjunka's country and a special place called Wakalpuka, a rockhole at the base of Wakalpuka. It's a story about the Patjarrtja (native quoll, sometimes referred to as native cat). This animal was travelling around. You cannot find the Patjarrtja anymore, they have become extinct from this region.'

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Category: Fine Art / Aboriginal Art

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