This screen print shows hills in country called Mingmarriya near Dingo Springs on Texas Downs Station East of Warmun (Turkey Creek) WA where the artist lives and paints. Lots of wild dingos live in the area. Mingmarriya is limestone country and is dipicted as the striped hills. Queenie takes one of her Aboriginal names from this country. As she puts it, ‘my name been grow up from these hills’. The artist’s uncle was born in this country. When Queenie was young, an Aboriginal man was killed with a club here for eloping with a woman who was promised to another man.
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Queenie McKenzie
Work on paper title 'Mingmarriya'
Palya Art C-2957
Screenprint on Magnani Pescia paper, 440 x 640 mm Image size 560 x 760 mm Paper size
$2,200.00 AUD
Date created 1996
Australian Art Network edition SKU: QM006 13/99
Gija language spoken, East Kimberley
Artist dates 1915 - 1998