Lloyd Kwilla

Kulyayi - Bushfire Series

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Lloyd Kwilla

Kulyayi - Bushfire Series

McCulloch & McCulloch
Medium: Natural ochre and pigments on canvas
Size: 120 x 90 cm
Year: 2010
Price: POA

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Born in Derby in 1980, Lloyd Kwilla is the son of Billy Thomas (Karnta
Karnta), painter, medicine man and senior Lawman from the Great Sandy
Desert. Kwilla spent most of his childhood at Wangkatjungka community on
Christmas Creek station, where he acquired a love of the landscape that
surrounded him, and an intimate knowledge of its secrets.
Using only the richly coloured ochres gathered from country, he boldly applies
the hand-ground pigments to canvas in lush swathes, creating work of dramatic
intensity. Art lovers have been mesmerised by his mellifluous manipulation of
warm colour and dazzling white, layered to depict aerial perspectives of the
Jumu (waterholes) and Tali (sand hills) of the Great Sandy Desert.
His works share the sensual richness of Thomasʼs thickly applied ochres, yet
possess his own highly distinctive style.
Having spent his whole life in this country, Kwilla knows both its grandeur and
intricacies intimately and portrays these with increasing surety.

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