Ngayuku ngurra - my country

Cynthia Burke was destined to be an artist. Daughter of the great Jean Burke and niece of Aboriginal art legend, Tommy Watson, she spent her childhood in Kaltuktjara (Docker River, W.A.) watching them paint and learning the craft that defines her work to this day.

“Every time I looked at my mother she was painting. I learnt from her. She wanted me to do the painting. All of my work is influenced by culture, Country and what I have learnt from my family.”

Cynthia’s art exhibits a refined dot style, often combined with blocks of colour representing the sandhills and waterholes of her ancestral lands. “When I’m painting it’s like I’m in that place. I think about the landscape as if I were looking down from a plane and seeing a lake or spinifex”.

As well an internationally acclaimed artist, Cynthia is also renowned for her punu (wood carving). She is also an important cultural leader in her community, helping to keep the Ngaanyatjarra language strong as host of a local radio show.

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Exhibition opening Saturday 9 November 10am - 4pm

Image: Warakurna 150cm x 150cm

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254 Bronte Road

Waverley NSW 2024

Tuesday - Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

By appointment please call 0450929183