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Lot description
Born at Yarltu Yarltu near the Granites in the Tanami Desert, Warlpiri artist Lorna Napurrula Fencer emerged as a painter of repute in the early 1990s. Due principally to her highly charged colour field paintings and wildly gestural style she came to be considered the Warlpiri equivalent of her, more famous, Eastern Anmatierre counterpart Emily Kame Kngwarreye. They shared many Dreamings, most notably, the yam or bush potato which dominated the artworks of both artists. Bush potatoes grow as roots underground, so the women must use digging sticks to find them. The meandering lines in the centre of this work represent the root system of the bush potato plant. The lines surrounding the plan are digging sticks and the circle at the top is the place where the women dig to retrieve the wild yams which are excellent bush tucker.