JEROME ANDERSON - KALKA
JEROME ANDERSON
KALKA, 2009
82 x 82 cm
Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen
REGION
Spinifex Homelands Tjuntjutjarra, WA
PROVENANCE
Spinifex Arts Project, W.A
STORY
The lands of the Spinifex people in Western Australia extend to the border with South Australia and North of the Nullarbor Plain. The centre of their homeland is in the Great Victoria Desert, at Tjuntjunjarra, some 700 kilometres East of Kalgoorlie, perhaps the most remote community in Australia. To this day, a traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle is in large part maintained.
In 1997, an art project was started in which Indigenous paintings became part of the title claim, which was recognised in 2000. Later, in 2001, Cooee Art Gallery held their first commercial art exhibition in Sydney, which was officially opened by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the Governor of NSW, Marie Bashir.
Jerome has painted the area where he was born. As shown the country is breakaway creek country where walking through means walking through creek systems. The area generally includes a number of sites that cannot be named or elaborated.
EXHIBITED
Tracking the Wati Kutjarra, November 2009, Cooee Art Leven, NSW
Painting Words, December 2022, Cooee Art | Redfern
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