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BOXER MILNER TJAMPITJIN c.1935-2009 MUYUN, 2001 acrylic on linen 149.5 x 75 cm artwork cataloguing details verso PROVENANCE Warlayirti Artists, WA Cat No. 384/01 Private Collection, WA Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Warlayirti Artists EXHIBITED Contemporary Indigenous Art in Australia, IVAM, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain, 31 January - 16 April 2012 Dreamings. Aboriginal Australian art meets de Chirico, Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Roma, 4 July - 2 November 2014 Eaux Vivantes, Living Waters, Musée océanographique de Monaco, 23 March - 30 September 2016 ©Boxer Milner Tjampitjin / Copyright Agency, 2024 Boxer Milner began painting in the late 1980s. Born south-west of Billiluna near Sturt Creek, Boxer was one of a small number of people who came from the transition zone between the desert and the river country in Tjaru land. Here the country and vegetation move from flat and featureless rolling Spinifex plains to flood plains with enormous river channels and permanent water holes. His paintings differ from those with a conventional Balgo aesthetic. They explore the yearly cycles of flood and dry which create swamps with abundant bird life, through which Purkitji (Stuart Creek) runs. Muyun is the name for a prominent sand dune, south of Boxer's home, and is shown as the horizontal line through the centre of the painting. The track that people travelled along, when moving through this country is the central vertical line. The variety of hook shapes show the different drainage and creek lines throughout this country, while the background colours show the different types of soil and vegetation found in the area. This was the country where an ancestral man called Waltjiri threw his boomerang one day, for fun, and the boomerang as it travelled across the sky left behind the wirtaki, or rainbows that form during the wet season. This piece is a fine example of an Australian Aboriginal artwork.