Yunurr (Spring Creek)
1991
- Medium
- earth pigments on canvas
- Measurements
- 60.5 × 100.4 cm (comp.) 61.3 × 101.2 cm (framed)
- Place/s of Execution
- Perth, Western Australia
- Accession Number
- 2010.360
- Department
- First Nations Australia
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 2010
© Rover Thomas/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of The Vizard Foundation - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Thomas has painted Yunurr, near Spring Creek junction in Gija Country, on Texas Downs Station where he worked as a stockman, mustering cattle. There is a long hill at Yunurr where an ancestral snake travelled in the ngarrangkani (Dreaming) and made a spring by urinating. In the centre of the work, Thomas represents Red Fire or Kilfoyle Hill as a rounded, squarish shape bearing loose yellow dotting that stands out on a black ground. The red-ochre angular section in the bottom left corner indicates the road for cars near the hill.