Lucy Loomoo
Yirnangarri
2001
49" x 36"
124 cm x 91 cm
USD $6,000
About Lucy Loomoo
Lucy was born near Jupiter Well and her childhood was spent mostly at places along the Canning Stock Route. This country, called Ilangarri, is her mother’s and grandfather’s country. Lucy traveled and lived in this country with her family until she was a young woman. She married and had one child, Kevin, before the family walked all the way up the Canning Stock Route to the Old Balgo Mission.
A second child, Charlie, was born at the Old Mission and Lucy looked after the sheep and goats here at Old Mission. Lucy and her family moved to the new mission site, the current location of Balgo community, in the 1960s and here she had two more children, Damien and Joan. Joan was placed in the dormitory and Lucy worked as a gardener watering all the trees planted around the oval in the community. Lucy continues to live in Balgo and has outlived her husband. She currently has five grandchildren.
About Yirnangarri
Lucy has depicted some of her country south of Balgo, along the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route. This country here is called Yirnangarri after the prominent warniri (rockhole) depicted in thecentre of the this painting. This warniri is an inta or "living water" because it has always been a reliable source of water. The many parallel lines represent the tali (sandhills) that dominate Lucy's country.
Exhibitions
Born: c. 1935
Location:
Skin: Nungurrayi
Language Wangkajungka
Mediums
Acrylic on canvas
Acrylic on linen
Themes
Tingari
Bush foods
Water and waterholes
Echidna
Snakes
Eagle
Blue tongue lizard
Karnaputta
Exhibitions
2007 8 x 3, Scott Liversey Gallery , Melbourne
2007 Desert Mob, Araluen Art Centre, Alice Springs
2007 Women With Sticks, Suzanne O’Connell, Brisbane
2007 Warlayirti Survey, Gallery Gondwana, Alice Springs
2007 Warlayirti Survey, Aboriginal Art and Pacific Art, Sydney
2007 Warlayirti Survey, They Might Be Giants, Alcaston Woolloongabba Art Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Balgo Survey Show, Redot Gallery, Singapore
2006 Survey , Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
2006 Recent Works, Short Street Gallery, Broome
2004 Recent Works, Short Street Gallery, Broome
2004 Balgo Prints, Northern Editions, Darwin
2004 Balgo 4-04, Warlayirti Artists, Balgo
2003 Eight by Three, Scott Livesey Art Dealer, Melbourne
2002 Balgo, Fremantle Arts Centre, Perth
2002 Tali, tjurrnu and waniri: Paintings by three senior women from the Great Sandy Desert, Kimberley Art Gallery, Melbourne
2002 Kutjungka , Passing it On: Works from Balgo Hills, Coomalie Cultural Centre, Batchelor
2001 Short on Size, Short St. Gallery, Broome
2001 Desert Mob, Arulen Centre, Alice Springs
2001 New Paintings from Balgo, Cutliffe Gallery, Sydney
1998 The Laverty Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1997 Desert Country, Matso’s, Broome
1997 Dreamings, Arnhem, The Netherlands
1995 Aboriginal Paintings and Prints, on loan from the collection of Robert and Barbara Bromberg, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA
1993 Wirrimanu: the Art of Balgo Hills, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington
1992 Warlayirti Artists’ Homelands, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington
1992 Broome Fringe Festival, Broome
1991 A Focus on Western Australia, Crafts Council of NSW, The Rocks, Sydney
1991 Paintings by Senior Women from the Western Desert, Vivien Anderson Gallery, Melbourne
1991 Some Aboriginal Women: A Survey of Contemporary Women’s Art, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington
1990 Songlines: Paintings from Balgo Hills, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
1990 The Singing Earth, Chapman Gallery, Canberra
1990 Warlayirti Artists, Birukmarri Gallery, Freemantle
1989 Warlayirti Artists: Continuing Links with Land, Coo-ee Aboriginal Art Gallery, Paddington
Collections
Laverty Collection
Artbank Collection
Bibliography
1994 Johnson, V, The Dictionary of Western Desert Artists, Craftsman House, East Roseville NSW