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Lot description
Rover Thomasâ style is unique in the way that he simultaneously represents aerial and lateral perspectives on landscape. These two viewpoints enable the observer to see the country as one entity (the division between earth and sky having been regarded by the artist as erroneous). Thomas worked as a jackaroo on the Canning Stock Route, and later on cattle stations situated on the fringes of the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts before he began painting in 1981. In this work, he depicted the hills on Bedford Station where, according to oral history, Aboriginal people were killed after being poisoned with strychnine added to their food by station owner Paddy Quilty and his men in 1924. Only one man, Major, escaped to tell the tale by climbing Bedford Hill. Major went on to become a notorious bushranger who sought retribution until he was ambushed and killed a year later.