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WEST MEETS EAST
6 - 24 April 2023

WEST MEETS EAST

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lloyd Kwilla, Desert Winds at Kulyayi Waterhole , 2010
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Lloyd Kwilla, Desert Winds at Kulyayi Waterhole , 2010

Lloyd Kwilla Wangkatjungka, b. 1980

Desert Winds at Kulyayi Waterhole , 2010
Kimberley ochres on canvas
100 x 140 cm
39 3/8 x 55 1/8 in
MM6111
6,900.00
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Born in Derby in 1980, Lloyd Kwilla is the son of the late Billy Thomas (Karntakarnta), painter, medicine man and senior Lawman from the Great Sandy Desert. Kwilla spent most...
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Born in Derby in 1980, Lloyd Kwilla is the son of the late Billy Thomas (Karntakarnta), painter, medicine man and senior Lawman from the Great Sandy Desert. Kwilla spent most of his childhood at Wangkatjungka community on Christmas Creek Station where he acquired a love of the landscape that surrounded him, and an intimate knowledge of its secrets


In the desert regions of Australia water and waterholes play an important role in the Indigenous people's lifestyle, these waterholes were created in the Dreamtime (Jumangkarni) and are all connected by subterranean tunnels. For the Wangkajunga and Walmajarri people of the Great Sandy Desert knowledge of these waterholes was crucial to survival while living a traditional lifestyle. As a boy Lloyd walked much of the desert with his father Billy Thomas (Karntakarnta) and knows the importance of these waterholes and understands their connections well.


This painting depicts Kulyayi during the windy time of the dry season a waterhole in the Great Sandy Desert (Well 42 on the Canning Stock Route). This is Lloyd's birth place given to him by his father Karntakarnta. Much of Lloyd's work centres around this place, he visits regularly from Wangkajunga Community where he lives and maintains the area by burning and removing wild camels that damage the waterhole. Each year Lloyd and his family dig out the waterhole to bring the water back to the surface which in turn attracts the birds and the mammals, most importantly the Kangaroo and the Bush Turkey. This work was inspired by a visit during the dry season when the strong easterly winds blow across the desert, these winds improve conditions for hunting as they can be utilised to disguise sound and smell.

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