Lot 8

Light surface wear showing around corner edges. A small puncture on the bottom centre is present (located against the stretcher bar on the edge). Work is stretched without framing. (LEONARD JOEL DELIVERY SIZE MEDIUM)


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Papunya Tula Artists Pty Ltd, Alice Springs, Northern Territory (accompanied by a copy of the certificate of authenticity)
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi, Melbourne (label verso)
Private collection, Melbourne

"This painting depicts designs associated with the rockhole and clayplan site of Pukunya, which is west of Umari and east of Mt. Webb in Western Australia.
A large group of women passed through this site during their travels further east. They gathered the edible seeds known as wirriny-wirrinypa, from the small shrub Solanum Cleistogamum, which grows in profusion near the claypan. These seeds are ground into a paste which is cooked in the coals to form a type of damper."- Papunya Tula Artists