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Country and family provide inspiration for Ngarralja Tommy May, winner of the major Telstra art award
Country and family provide inspiration for Ngarralja Tommy May, winner of the major Telstra art award
In the Great Sandy Desert there’s jila, a living spring waterhole.
In flood time, the water runs down the jilji (sand dunes) and around the rocks.
It’s place of significance to Indigenous artist Ngarralja Tommy May and along with memories of his late brother, is the inspiration for his artwork, Wirrkanja 2020, which won this year’s major Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA).
Mr May is a Wangkajunga and Walmajarri man born in Yarrkurnja …
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