Jawurji Mervyn Street | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Jawurji Mervyn Street. - click to view larger image

born 1950, Gooniyandi, Walmajarri, Jaru language groups, Jupurra skin group, Yiyili community, Mangkaja Arts

I been hearing lotta stories ’bout this droving, Wiluna to Billiluna, and I don’t even believe myself I’m here, halfway in this road.

As a young man Mervyn worked as a stockman on Carnegie station, where he met Martu people who had worked with his family on the stock route. In 2007 Mervyn travelled the ‘old bullocky road’ for the first time.

A water colour and pencil work on three sheets of heavy paper joined with adhesive tape on the reverse. The work depicts a herd of brown coloured cattle with men on horseback and men on foot around them. A male figure, centre, wears a yellow hat, beige shirt and blue trousers, and rides a red-brown horse. In the background are trees and foliage in grey or brown against a light blue sky, while in the foreground there are plants in grey on a red ground. At the left edge the page is uneven where it has been torn from a spiral bound pad. There is a piece of the same paper that sits inside the work when it is folded up. - click to view larger image — *Cattle at Durba Springs*

Canning Stock Route by Mervyn Street, Mangkaja Arts, 2008. Acrylic on canvas. - click to view larger image — *Canning Stock Route*

Wakartu Cory Surprise

Taku Rosie Tarco

Kanu Nancy Taylor

Ngalangka Nola Taylor

Karntakarnta Billy Thomas

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