"This is my country, Lungarang Country. This is where I was born. I travelled around this place as a young woman walking through the sand dunes (Tali) collecting Mayi (bush food) with my mother. "

Weaver Jack (1928-2010) was a Yulparija woman and artist born at Lungarung in the Great Sandy Desert. After mining started in the Pilbara, much of the underground creek system was disturbed and there was a devastating drought in Yulparija country. Jack, her husband and children kept travelling in search of water. Eventually, in the 1960s, they settled at the community Bidayadanga near Broome. For much of her life Jack lived a traditional lifestyle and was considered the senior law woman for the Yulparija people. She also became a significant artist when she started painting under the aegis of Short Street Gallery while living at Bidyadanga in 2003. She was notable for being the first Aboriginal artist to be selected as a finalist in the Archibald Prize in 2006 with an iconographic abstract work which she said was a depiction of the country which was in itself, her  as the two were inextricably entwined. As given on the Art Gallery of NSW website of her Archibald work she described to Short Street director Emily Rohr 'This is me, this mine, the whole lot is me, this is me. I’ve been walking all around. I know him proper way, he is always here [in her heart], we are same one, my country is me. He long way that way, but he still here.’
Jack's works are held in many major private and state collections including the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria.

This early work was acquired by the owner on a visit to Bidydanga where he observed Jack and her fellow artists painting at the second workshop conducted by Short Street Gallery in August 2003.