Jimbala

Lena Nyadbi Australian (Aboriginal)

2003

Not on view

Lena Nyadbi uses locally sourced natural earth pigments to create her rich yet restrained compositions. Her works focus on the ancestral narratives (ngarrangkarni ) from her father’s country in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Stones dug up from the earth were customarily used to fashion spearheads (jimbala) that were attached to spears (karlumburi), and it is these ancient forms that she alludes to here in the arrangement of aligned vertical strokes against a dark ground.

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Title: Jimbala
Artist: Lena Nyadbi (Australian (Aboriginal), born ca. 1936)
Date: 2003
Medium: Ochre on canvas
Dimensions: 35 7/16 × 47 1/4 in. (90 × 120 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of Robert Kaplan and Margaret Levi Collection, 2017
Object Number: 2017.251.4
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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