Luga

Name: Luga
Brand: Kittey Malarvie
SKU: WAR381212
Price: 5940.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

$5,940 AUD

Artist:

Kittey Malarvie

Size:

120cm x 90cm

Medium:

Natural ochre and pigment on canvas

Orientation

This artwork can be hung landscape or portrait

Kittey has depicted the drying and cracked mud of her mother's Country along the Sturt River. She describes the area where she visited as a child along the banks and waterholes by the river as black soil country. "When we were young, my sisters and cousins would play with dried and cracked mud flats. Luga, pronounced "Looka" is the name we had for the dried mud flats.

In the wet seasons and after a big tide on the Sturt River the water would rise up on the black mud flats, as it dried it would turn crystal like salt. We would play making cakes from the dried shapes and sometimes play like stepping stones. sometimes the old people would eat these cracked mud cakes as bush medicine for the salt. I like making paintings from my memories from when we were young and all together."

Artists Biography

I was born at the gold mine - Brockman near Halls Creek. I grew up at the Ord River Station between Mistake Creek and Spring Creek. I travelled to Kununurra with my family in the early 1970s where I first learnt boab carving and artefact making with my mother and father.

We used to sell to tourists to make money. My dad was teaching us and we were selling in the street in Kununurra and then through the first Waringarri. We would go out on weekends looking for boab nuts to carve and sell. It was a hard time but a good time.

These days I prefer to paint and make prints. Recently focusing on painting practice, Kittey reveals layers of meaning and story in rich ochre paintings that connect to her traditional desert country south west of Kununurra. Layers of circle motifs interpret the transition of the seasons and a land that is flooded and dry by turns leaving behind the patterned ground of "luga" cracked mud.

Malarvie’s Milkwater series depicts a meditation on the multifaceted play of wind and light across a remarkable body of water the colour of milk. Painting primarily in ochres of pinks, black, greys and milky whites, the artist translates the language of her Country into the gestures and utterances of international abstraction.

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This is in no small part due to owner Nichola Dare’s regular trips to some of the most remote parts of Australia and her ability to build relationships with art centres and artists, based on mutual trust and respect. Nichola’s time in Australia’s Western Desert, The Kimberley, APY Lands and Arnhem Land has also given her a deep understanding of the country and culture at the heart of the art we sell.

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