Willie Kew: Nyirla – Old Man Country
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Willie Kew paints the Kingfisher Dreaming story from his birthplace at Nyirla rockhole, with a series of paintings that define his identity and the Creation story of his Country.
Luurn Willie Kew maintained a strong affiliation with his ancestral country and the Kingfisher Dreaming that gave him his name. The subject matter of his painting is integral to his identity – and in the process of painting he was totally connected to his country. In his later years Willie Kew refined down his painting style. He had to deal with the affliction of blindness in one eye, and was only able to paint for limited periods of time. His later paintings, made with ochre pigments, capture in a primal way the forces at work in the artist’s desert country – the forces of water, survival, animal tracks, and the living signs of the Narrangkarni Dreaming spirit.