COLLEEN CARTER - SUGARBAG YARD, BOW RIVER
COLLEEN CARTER
SUGARBAG YARD, BOW RIVER, 2000
60 x 80 cm
Natural Earth Pigments on Canvas
REGION
Warmun, WA
PROVENANCE
Warmun Art Centre, WA, Cat. No WAC 669/00
The Alec O'Halloran & Helen Zimmerman Collection, NSW
Cooee Art Leven, NSW
STORY
In the Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) a man went hunting with his two dogs. The dogs chased after a kangaroo and disappeared. The man sat at the top of a hill, high above Bow River (30 km north of Warmun) and called out for his dogs to come back. He turned into a rock and can still be seen standing there, calling out for the dogs. Both the dogs and kangaroo also turned into rocks. This painting shows the man at the top of the hill, wearing a traditional hair belt and bundawalla (headband).
EXHIBITED
Inspired: Collectors Edition, April 2023, Cooee Art | Redfern
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