Vogue Australia

HOMECOMING

The artwork , first exhibited in 2009, is more than five metres wide and is painted using a mixture of rose, peach, pink, sage, white, blue and gold acrylic paints. Along the border of the canvas are 29 vivid cobalt blue circles, each labelled with the name of a sacred waterhole in the East Pilbara region. The centre is rendered with an expansive wash of white paint; a unique way of depicting the central subject matter Ngayartu Kujarra – an immense salt lake known to many as Lake Dora. It is a vast, collaborative work made by 12 women

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