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Image of Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women
Image of Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women

Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women

Lena Dawson

$3,200.00

  • Year

    2023

  • Medium

    Muur-muurpa | Desert Bloodwood

  • Size

    120 x 23.3 x 21.5cm

Lena Dawson is a Ngaanyatjatjarra woman residing in Warakurna community in Western Australia with her husband Ernest Bennett. She is a painter for Warakurna Artists, a weaver for Tjanpi Desert Weavers and a carver for Maruku Arts. Lena carves alongside her good friend Cynthia Burke and has been passed down the knowledge of Country and Tjukurpa from the old people. In this work, Lena has used the form of the piti, a traditional woman’s carrying vessel, to create a sculpture that also relates to the Minyama Kutjara. The work features walka, patterns burnt into the wood with wire heated on a wood fire, relating to Tjukurpa, stories about the creation ancestors and the activities which shaped the land.

Revealed 2023 Artist Lena Dawson

  • Born

    1965

  • Lives & Works

    Warakurna

Lena Dawson is a Ngaanyatjatjarra woman residing in Warakurna community in Western Australia with her husband Ernest Bennett. She is a painter for Warakurna Artists, a weaver for Tjanpi Desert Weavers and a carver for Maruku Arts. Lena carves alongside her good friend Cynthia Burke and has been passed down the knowledge of Country and Tjukurpa from the old people. In Minyma Kutjara | The Two Women, Lena depicts the two women who travelled the artist's lands during the creation period, hunting and adventuring along the way and forming many aspects of the landscape. They also left behind information still used today about the important rituals and work of women. Lena has etched what is like a map that only she and other people of this Country can read, with information necessary to hunt and survive coded into the landscape.

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Location

1 Finnerty Street
Fremantle
Western Australia

Contact

(08) 9432 9569 [email protected]