Description
Details
- Type: Screenprint
- Edition: 99
- Paper: Magnani Pescia
- Size: 460 x 660 mm (image size) and 560 x 760 mm (paper size)
- Printer: Basil Hall Editions, Darwin NT
Story
This screen print depicts the billabong known as Nilligum, close to the artist’s homeland. This is an area of the artist’s traditional country at the north end of Newry Station. The billabong is indicated by the yellow area is Nilligum. In the hills above the billabong, the one at the far right is called Mowiya. This is the place where the diamond headed rock python used to live. But the Langerrung – King Brown snake – came and stole that hill place away from the rock python, so the python left to Bucket Springs area where the spring is at Doojum. Lungerrun took that hill ten acre area away to Lungabi, that is a place only about two hundred yards away to the left of the billabong Nilligum.
Peter Newry Artist Biography
Lived: c1939 – 2012
Language: Miriwoong
Country: Newry Station NT
Courtesy: Waringarri Arts
