Bulanjdjan Ngalkardbam (Kay Lindjuwanga) (1956 - 2024)

BILLABONG AT MILMILNGKAN, 2005

natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark

137.0 x 49.0 cm (irregular)

bears inscription on label attached verso: artist's name, medium, size, subject, language group and Maningrida Arts and Culture cat. 4971-05

Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory
Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney
Private collection, Melbourne

Kay Lindjuwanga: Bark paintings from Duwa country, Aboriginal and Pacific Art, Sydney, 3 – 24 September 2005

Billabong at Milmilngkan, 2005, natural earth pigments on eucalyptus bark, 172.0 x 62.0 cm, in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Maningrida Arts and Culture, Northern Territory, which states:

‘Kay Lindjuwanga has painted the billabong located near her outstation at Milmilngkan. 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 might be caused by rainbow serpents which live under the ground there. The cross-hatching represents the country at Milrnilngkan.’