AUCTION | Aboriginal Works of Art | 4 June 2019

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LOT #105 Kathleen Donegan & Elaine Thomas Minyma Tjutaku, 2008 120 x 119 cm synthetic polymer paint on Belgian linen $2,800 - 3,600 PROVENANCE Spinifex Arts Project, WA Cat No. C681 Private Collection, ACT accompanied by a Spinifex Arts Project certificate of authenticity In this work Elaine Thomas and Kathleen Donnigan, both senior and highly knowledgeable women from Spinifex country, have collaborated to tell part of the Seven Sisters Dreaming that passes through Elaine’s country. Kathleen, whose country Mamatu is further to the east has added details of Kapi Piti Kutjara Tjukurpa which passes through her own country. Both women are responsible for their own extremely remote birthplace and each of these is connected through the Seven Sisters songline.


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