Kumpaya Girgirba

This painting depicts country around the artist’s home of Kunawarritji. Kunawarritji is an important site in the Great Sandy Desert where multiple stories and histories intersect. Originally an important spring water, at the turn of the 20th century Kunawarritji became a well (Well 33) along the Canning Stock Route. Each year throughout the 1930-50s, the well became a site of contact between the drovers, their cattle, and desert families. Today, Kunawarritji is a site of return, a place where people have come back to continue making their life in the desert.