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Canning Stock Route

100 piece jigsaw puzzle (210mm x 297mm x 1.5mm jigsaw only, packaged size: 167mm x 125mm x 16mm) supplied in a tin with wraparound sleeve, featuring the collaborative painting ‘Our Country’ by Martumili Artists Kumpaya Girgirba, Kathleen Sorensen, Judith Samson, Sonia Williams, Natasha Williams, Noreena Kadibil, Thelma Judson, Karnu Nancy Taylor, Marjorie Yates, and Noelene Girgirba.

Work on this painting commenced at Parnngurr Community in September 2011. The canvas was rolled out, and Judith Samson under Kumpaya’s instruction painted the road and waterholes. Kumpaya soon jumped in and started painting with Judith, later being  joined by several more artists.The painting was worked on at Parnngurr on and off for two weeks and finally completed by Kumpaya and Kathleen after ten days of nonstop painting to complete the detail.

The painting depicts the Canning Stock Route and the wells along it, more importantly it illustrates the artists intimate knowledge of their country; the use of fire to manage county, vast sand hills and underground water sources, the jukurrpa (dreaming).

“There’s minyi puru (seven sisters) all through this painting, the seven sisters stopped all through this country, at all of the waterholes. The Jina (feet) show where Martu walked in pujiman, all through the desert, we still walk through our country, now there are lots of Toyotas on the CSR, tourists, Martu and the Martu rangers working on the country to look after it. You can see the pattern waru (Fire) makes on country and how much water there is in the desert, Martu know how to find this water, not just the water in CSR wells. Kunawarritji is the big waterhole; it’s my home, its lovely country.”

– Kumpaya Girgaba