John Mawurndjul (born 1952)

MILMILNGKAN, 2007

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

112.5 x 47.0 cm (irregular)

Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida, Northern Territory (label attached verso, cat. 1874-07)
Private collection, New South Wales

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Maningrida Arts and Culture, Maningrida which the artist states in part: ‘This is the site at Milmilngkan and these represent water, you can see here the water comes out (the little round dots are water/springs) They are springs. The water comes out at Milmilngkan and there are springs there surrounded by water pandanus (pandanus aquaticus) where the water comes out of the ground. This may be caused by the rainbow serpents that live under the ground there. This is all cross-hatched here. The cross-hatching represents the country there …. I’ve recently seen water coming up out of the ground there.’