Title
Kinyu
2007
Artist
Eubena Nampitjin
Australia
circa 1925 – 11 Mar 2013
Language group: Wangkajunga, Western Desert region
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Wirrimanu (Balgo)
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Western Australia
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Australia
- Date
- 2007
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- synthetic polymer paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- 125.0 x 295.0 cm stretcher
- Credit
- Purchased with funds provided by the Patricia Lucille Bernard Bequest and the Don Mitchell Bequest 2007
- Location
- North Building, ground level, Yiribana Gallery
- Accession number
- 354.2007
- Copyright
- © Estate of Eubena Nampitjin/Copyright Agency
- Artist information
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Eubena Nampitjin
Works in the collection
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About
The art centre documentation for this work states:
Eubena has painted some of her country south west of Balgo in the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route. The majority of the painting shows the tali (sandhills) that dominate this country. The central circles are tjurrnu (soak water) named Midjul. This is the country where Kinyu the spirit dog lives. Eubena would often cover Midjul with leaves so Kinyu wouldn't come out and would also leave gifts of goanna.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 5 exhibitions
Eubena Nampitjin, Queen of the Desert, Alcaston Gallery, Fitzroy, 16 Oct 2007–10 Nov 2007
Living Black (2007-08), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 20 Dec 2007–12 Nov 2008
Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05 Feb 2016–18 Sep 2016
Wirrimanu: art from Balgo, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jul 2019–17 Nov 2019
Yiribana Gallery: opening collection display, Art Gallery of New South Wales, North Building, Sydney, 03 Dec 2022–29 May 2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Stephen Gilchrist (Editor), Everywhen: the eternal present in Indigenous art from Australia, Cambridge, 2016, 132, 133 (colour illlus.).
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