Simon Hogan

Painted at Tjuntjuntjara for the Spinifex Arts Project, Western Australia
Cooee Aboriginal Art, Sydney
The Thomas Vroom Collection, The Netherlands, acquired from the above

Cooee Aboriginal Art, Sydney, Pila Nguru: Art and Song of the Spinifex People, February 2001

This painting is sold with accompanying Spinifex Arts Project documentation, catalogue number C65, with descriptive notes that reads as follows: "Two friends, Wirratju and Walawarru (a hawk and an eagle), were camping together at Linka. Walawarru went off looking for a woman leaving his friend to look after camp. When he came back a powerful storm had happened with huge hail. Then Wirratju was dead. Furious at himself and the hail storm Walawarru thrashed about pushing up a huge pile of white fur finally turning into a rock and leaving that place, sad at having lost his friend. Linka is the rock formation still standing there."

This painting was exhibited along with 30 others which formed the first commercial exhibition of artworks, entitled Pila Nguru: Art and Song of the Spinifex People, painted by the traditional owners from Spinifex and Country, February 2001.