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LYDIA BALBAL, born c.1958, JAWANI JAWANI, 2008, synthetic polymer paint on canvas SIGNED: bears inscription verso: artist's name, date, medium, size and Short Street Gallery cat. 25382 DIMENSIONS: 122.0 x 121.0 cm PROVENANCE: Short Street Gallery, Broome William Mora Galleries, Melbourne (stamped verso) Private collection, Sydney EXHIBITED: Lydia Balbal. Recent Paintings, William Mora Galleries, Melbourne, 11 November – 5 December 2008 This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Short Street Gallery that states: ‘Lydia says: “This big hill with jila (living water). Jawani Jawani that snake he a cheeky one. He lives in that water. He makes rain this country. Can’t make fire there or that snake get angry.” This country is Mangala Country and is a woman’s place. It is a twin place, one of two similar places located close to each in the Great Sandy Desert in W.A.’