Medium: Acrylic on canvas.
Description:
The artist has painted her father’s ancestral country at Tjitjurrulnga (also known as Titjurrulpa Rockhole), which is located west of Kintore, representing the sandhills and the rockholes.
The Tjukurrpa (dreaming) for Tjitjurrulng is ice (little frost stars).
In this story men and women are travelling from Yuendumu to Tjitjurrulnga, and when they arrive, they dance and make ceremony.
Eileen depicts her traditional country with long rows of sand hills that form rhythmic patterns across the canvas. Occasionally the lines of hills diverge and then meet up again to reveal a desert water source located in the rockhole.
Context:
This work was created as part of the 2021 French – Australian artist collaboration project Dessin du territoire – Territoire du dessin (Land drawing – Land of drawing).