Eubena Nampitjin "Kinyu"

122 x 91 cm. Year 2009. Acrylics on Belgian Linen. Nampitjin began painting in 1986, and her first works were presented at the Art from the Great Sandy Desert exhibition later that year. After the Warlayirti Artists organization was formed, her husband and daughters painted alongside her. Her work Kinyu, created in 1991, was noted by art historians as "metaphor for the surface of her country", as well as exemplifying a transitional period in which she moved away from a style in which dots were preferred to lines. In 1998, she won the Open Painting prize in the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award.