Lot 83: Rover Joolama Thomas - Untitled - Barramundi Dreaming

Name: Rover Joolama Thomas - Untitled - Barramundi Dreaming
Brand: Cooee Art
SKU: 4ea4567895
Price: 20000 AUD

Est: $35,000 AUD - $55,000 AUDSold:

Cooee ArtPaddington, AustraliaJune 23, 2020

Item Overview

Description

Rover Thomas lived a traditional bush life with his family at Well 33 until, at 10 years of age, he moved with his family to Billiluna Station, where he was initiated after his mother's death. After working for a period as a jackeroo on the Canning Stock Route, he became a fencing contractor in Wyndham. Later he worked as a stockman in the Northern Territory and the fringes of the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts, including Bow River Station. There he married for the first time. Later, he moved on to Texas Downs, Old Lissadell, and Mabel Downs, adjacent to the Warmun community at Turkey Creek, where he settled in his later years. According to the story that accompanies this work, a beautiful Barramundi made its home in the Tharram river at Bandicoot Bar. The Barramundi travelled up the Dunham River, past where the Worrworrum community is today. A group of old women gave chase and it swam into a cave near the area now known as Barramundi Gap. As it entered the cave, the women prepared to catch it with nets made from dried and rolled Spinifex grass. The Barramundi realised it was trapped in the shallow water of the cave entrance and tried to escape by swimming to the other end. But the Barramundi could not find a way out. It returned to the entrance of the cave where the women were waiting with their nets. The big Barramundi swam towards the women and leapt over them, swimming through to Glen Hill, where some of its scales scraped off on the rocks as it passed through. You can see the scales of Barramundi Gap near the Glen Hill communityâs first gate - they are the white rocks on the top of the ranges and they gleam bright white when the sun hits them in the late afternoon. As the Barramundi died, it turned into a white stone. Its fat (a delicacy to the local people) became the pink diamonds and its organs became the brown and yellow stones sprinkled across the land. Three of the old women who chased the Barramundi to Cattle Creek peered into the water to look for it, when they too turned into stone, forever becoming part of the landscape. Today there are three stone formations overlooking the creek.

Dimensions

74 x 203 cm 80 x 209 cm (frame)

Artist or Maker

Rover Thomas Joolama

Medium

ochre on canvas

Date

c.1988

Provenance

Commissioned by Dr Peter Elliott Thence by decent. Private Collection, NSW Signed 'Rover' verso

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Auction Details

Indigenous Fine Art Auction 23rd June 2020

Cooee Art

June 23, 2020, 07:00 PM AEST

326 Oxford Street, Paddington, NSW, 2021, AU

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