Context (CMS Context)
Biography of the artist as recorded on the certificate of provenance accompanying the print:
"Eubena Nampitjin (b.c. 1921) is arguably Balgo's most successful artist to date. Eubena is a Ngartijarra/Wangkajungka Purtitjarra and Kukatja language speaker who started painting at Balgo with her second husband Wimmitji in the mid-1980s. Together the forged a strong reputation as artists, however Eubena's individual reputation also grew steadily, complementing her formidable influence in the community as a teacher of languae and law. Along with Wimmitji, Eubena developed a palette characterised by hot colours, which she continues today. Since winning the Open painting category in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award in Darwin in 1998, the demand for her work has steadily increased. She has held several solo exhibitions and has participated in many Balgo group shows, as well as with other non-Indigenous Australian artists. Her primary themes include tjunu (soakwater), tjukarra (rockholes), mulu (kangaroo dreaming), kantili (bush tomato), women's ceremonies, goanna, mouse, moon, and dingo dreaming. These subjects are alluded to in works that also depict specific tracts of country in the Great Sandy Desert. She has been actively involved in printmaking since Balgo artists first visited Northern Editions in the early 1990s. "A regal character, she is both iron-strong and unfailingly generous. Painting is like her second language and she paints persistently with passion and dedication." (Warlayirti Arts) Eubena's work is represented in major public and private collections throughout Australia and overseas."


Event Date 14/8/2012
Author: Remke van der Velden

Description (CMS Description)
Print description as recorded on the certificate of provenance accompanying the print:
"Eubena has painted some of her country south west of Balgo along the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route. The majority of the painting shows the tali (sand hills) that dominate this country. The central circles are tjurrnu (soak water) named Midjul. This is the country where Kinyu the spirit dog lives. Eubena would often cover Midjul with leaves so Kinyu wouldn't come out and would as leave gifts of goanna."

Event Date 14/8/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Presented by The Art Fund and the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An acquisition project to build a collection of modern and contemporary work on paper from Australia, Canada and South Africa was undertaken over 2011-13 with the support of a grant under The Art Fund's RENEW programme. The collection was developed with the expert advice and generous assistance of Annie Coombes and Norman Vorano in relation to South African and Inuit artists respectively. Khadija Carroll, Anita Herle and Diana Wood Conroy also contributed to the selection process. A certificate of provenance is available for this print.
According to the certificate of provenance:

Print Number: 07/28-38/50
The collaborator on this print is Jacinta Numina-Waugh, Michael Roseth the printer, and Warlayirti Art Centre the publisher.
Paper Type: Hahnemuhle 728 (white) 81 x 61c
Edition date: 01/06/2007
Edition size: 50. Purchased via Northern Editions Printmaking Studio & Gallery. Gallery Address:
Charles Darwin University, Building Orange 9
Darwin NT 0909 - Australia
P:+61(0)889466325
F:+61(0)889466599
E:northern.editions@cdu.edu.au
www.northerneditions.com.au
Shipped to UK on 27/3/2012


Event Date 14/8/2012
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Print titled 'Kinyu'.
Edition no. 38/50.Print of an etching on paper. Yellow/orange imagery printed on a red background. '2007' is written in pencil in the bottom right corner underneath the image. And 38/50 in the right hand bottom corner. A cross in pencil is visible at the bottom of the print right from the centre. A watermark representing a rooster and a ?hen is visible in the bottom right hand corner, whilst a watermark of a wind direction 'compass' with 'Northern Editions' written around it can be seen in the bottom left hand corner. Condition: very good.



Event Date 14/8/2012
Author: maa

Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited: The Power of Paper, Li Ka Shing Gallery, MAA, 14 February - 6 December 2015. Reproduced in the exhibition catalogue.


Event Date 20/2/2015
Author: Eleanor Wilkinson