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November 23, 2006
I've mentioned before how much I admire the work of over East Kimberley artists such as Rover Thomas, Paddy Jaminji, George Mung Mung, Queenie McKenzie, Jack Britten, Freddie Timms and their contemporaries, Hector Jandany, Rusty Peters, Madigan Thomas and Paddy Bedford. These are the driving force of this distinctive Australian (Warmun) art movement that had its origins in Turkey Creek and crystalize out of the recent history of the eastern Kimberleys.
Rover Thomas, Nungarra, date unknown
The areas of solid colour and graphic forms contrast sharply with Western Desert acrylics or Eastern Arnheim land paintings, even though all explore the relationships between mythology, people, land and history.
Art at Warmun evolved in the late 1970s from the painted boards used in the Gija people's Krill Krill song-dance cycle performed by the Warmun community. This ceremony included the carrying of painted boards by dancers. These boards initially were painted by Thomas's uncle Paddy Jaminji, under Rover Thomas' instructions, and only several years later did Rover Thomas take up painting independently himself.
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How about when you post up a painting by an artist you actually put a date on it. Then one is able to know whether it is one of his early paintings or one of his later ones. Also size is important and who owns it.