Lloyd
Kwilla
Gija (born 1980)
Kulyayi Waterhole – Bushfire, 2004
natural pigments on canvas
100 x 80cm
PROVENANCE
Red Rock Art, Kununurra, WA; accompanied by original certificate of authenticity,
cat.no.KP2151
Private Collection, SA
Documentation reads
The artist has spent most of his life living in his traditional country
on the northern fringes of the Great Sandy Desert Northern Western Australia.
His father Billy Thomas (Karnta Karnta) has taught hima great deal about
land and its features. This painting shoes a small waterhole close toe
the canning stock route called ‘Kulyayi’, all around are sandhills
‘Tali’ that are ablaze with a wildfire.