Jila Japirnka, 2002
inscribed 'Honey' and bears artist's name and Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency catalogue number 249/02 on the reverse
synthetic polymer paint on canvas
122 x 182cm (48 1/16 x 71 5/8in).

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PROVENANCE:
Mangkaja Arts Resource Agency, Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia
Purchased from Raft Artspace, Darwin in January 2003
The Laverty Collection, Sydney

EXHIBITED:
Waterhole, Raft Artspace at Grantpirrie Gallery, Sydney, 10 - 25 January 2003, cat. no. 9
Breaking with tradition: Cobra and Aboriginal art, AAMU - Museum of contemporary Aboriginal art, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 12 November 2010 - 8 May 2011
The Colin and Elizabeth Laverty collection - a selection of Indigenous and non-Indigenous art exhibition, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, 18 February - 15 April 2012

LITERATURE:
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Recent Painting from Australia's Remote Aboriginal Communities - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Melbourne: Hardie Grant Books, 2008, pp.184-185 (illus.)
Paola van de Velde, Georges Petitjean and Ronald A.R. Kerkhoven, Los van traditie: Cobra en Aboriginal kunst (Breaking with tradition: CoBrA and Aboriginal art), exh. cat., Gent, Belgium: Snoeck, 2010, pp. 70-71 (illus.) and Annual Report 2010 p.24 (illus.)
Trouw, (newspaper) The Netherlands, 11 December 2010, p.36
Colin Laverty and Elizabeth Laverty et al., Beyond Sacred: Australian Aboriginal Art - the collection of Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Edition II, Melbourne: Kleimeyer Industries, 2011, pp.194-5 (illus.)
Artlink Indigenous, vol. 31, no. 2, 2011, p.105 (illus.)

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