Marpa
Lucy YUKENBARRI: artist
Yukenbarri was a senior law woman with a deep knowledge of land and ceremony. The black shape at the centre of this image is the permanent water source Marpa, which is surrounded by country rich with bushfood including kantilli and pura (bush raisins and bush tomato.) Marpa is in Yukenbarri’s grandmother’s country, and she made many paintings of this place, which is important women’s country in the southern Great Sandy Desert. Yukenbarri was noted for her innovative painting style, which involved the placing dots of pigment so close together that they appeared to merge, creating areas of intense colour. She referred to this as ‘kinti kinti’ (close close), and this painterly approach is evident in this glass work.
Title
Marpa
Artist/Maker and role
Lucy YUKENBARRI: artist
Date
2001
Medium
Glass
Measurements
36.0 x 48.0 x 0.6 cm
Credit line
Gift of Sue and Ian Bernadt, 2018
© Lucy Yukenbarri / Copyright Agency
The State Art Collection, The Art Gallery of Western Australia
Accession number
2018/0037