My Country A15055 Liddy Walker Napanangka raku clay with glaze

raku clay with glaze

In her kinship series

Liddy depicts the women picking seeds from the Wakirlpirri or Dogwood tree (Acacia coriacea)

This dreaming story is passed down to younger generations via ceremony and is integral to the Pintupi tribe and the continuity of physical

rocky outcrops and sandhills of her homelands

My Country A15055 Liddy Walker Napanangka raku clay with glazeYear: 2008 Size: 167 x 183cm acrylic on linen Eileens paints stories from her fathers ancestral country and depicts a site near her homelands in the Western Desert of Central Australia. The site is known as Tjitjurrulnga, a rockhole west of Kintore. Eileen represents this area using a series of parallel and arching lines of the sandhill country. The lines of hills diverge and then meet up again to reveal a desert water source located in the rock hole.