Artiste : Marie Meribida

Titre de l'œuvre : Yalta

Format : 60,5 x 60 cm

Provenance et certificat : Short Street opérant pour les artistes Yulparija de Bidyadanga

Référence de cette peinture aborigène : 785589

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Explications sur cette peinture d’art Aborigène :

Mary Meribida (1938) was born at Ilyara (Punmu) and lived there throughout her childhood. She travelled around her country with her family. Until the early 1970s, she lived a traditional life and says, "We been walk 'em, no clothes, nothing. We proper bush people, no English." Mary is a part of the Yulparija people who walked out of the desert to the coastal town of Bidyadanga in search of water after severe drought had plagued their land.

Mary Says "this place Yalta. There is tali (sand dunes) and lots of Nyarlka (trees). Good country this one got plenty water." Yalta is near well 33 on the Canning Stock Route not far from the Percival Lakes in the Great Sandy Desert, W.A.

Collections :

Canning Stock Route Project Collection
Notre Dame University
Laverty collection
Sam Barry collection
National Gallery of Australia
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia

© Photo : Aboriginal Signature Estrangin gallery with the courtesy of Short Street and the artist