Glass-Tipped Spear 4 George Ward Tjungurrayi The story was passed to

The story was passed to her by her mother and shows the topographical layout of the land and water holes that play a vital source to the traditional Aboriginal people

oil on canvas

Using various pastel shades to depict the contours of her country and the varying seasonal palette Polly creates her paintings using layer upon layer of colour

Size: 40 x 40cm

charcoal on polypropylene

Glass-Tipped Spear 4 George Ward Tjungurrayi The story was passed toYear: 2024 Size: 211 (L) x 2cm (diameter) Glass Tip: 12cm (purple) grass tree, ochre and acrylic, grass tree resin and hand knapped glass This spear references the glass artifacts made by First Nations people during the colonial period, using flaked glass for use as a form of protection. When European colonizers, pastoralists, and telegraph lines arrived in the 19th and 20th centuries, they brought manufactured glass. The molecular structure of glass