Kampirr Veronica Lulu | National Museum of Australia

Portrait of Kampirr Veronica Lulu. - click to view larger image

born 1952, Walmajarri language group, Napangarti skin group, Mulan community, Paruku Indigenous Protected Area

We always sit together and talk about Paruku. My father used to tell story and sing song for Sturt Creek, teach all the kids.

Lulu was born and grew up around Nyarna (Lake Stretch).

Before settling at Mulan in her father’s homeland, she lived at Billiluna station and then Balgo, where she helped establish Palyalatju Maparnpa health service.

Today she works for Paruku Indigenous Protected Area and paints for both Paruku and Warlayirti art centres.

A brown linen square canvas covered with multilayered small dots in gold, lemon, red, orange, brown and green on a black background. - click to view larger image — *Mungily*

A painting on brown linen with a square yellow background and a blue-grey circle in the centre both covered with dots. The yellow area is filled with red, brown, gold and beige and the blue is filled with blue, purple, magenta, white, yellow and green. - click to view larger image — *Parta*

A long rectangular dot painting on canvas showing a topographical map of a region with a lake or river system which starts at the lower right side and moves up the centre to the top. There is a red wavy line and pink-brown lines like tracks or roads on the painting. The sections in the painting are dotted with different colour combinations including lime green and green, pink and green, beige and black, yellow and orange, blue, yellow and orange, black, grey and brown, pink and purple and others. - click to view larger image — *Paruku*

A square painting on brown linen with a yellow-brown background and a wavy blue U shape with two curved or wavy lines extending off it. The background is covered in beige, black, green, brown and violet dots. The blue shape is covered in blue dots with white and brown concentric circles at the edge and on some terminal points. Along the edges of the blue shape are rows of dots in red, white, orange and black. - click to view larger image — *Paruku and Walmajarri People*

A square painting on brown linen with a yellow orange background and a wavy blue line flanked by a row of black dots then a thick green line in the centre. The yellow background is covered in yellow, orange, maroon and black dots, and has beige and white footprints in groups on both sides of the central feature. There are also semicircles in black edged with white dots, with an oval, similarly decorated, inside each one, on both sides of the central feature. - click to view larger image — *Mustering*

A purple toned dot painting on brown linen with wavy vertical lines of purple-lavender dots interspersed with rows of olive green dots on a blue background. The lines of darker purple dots have smaller black dots outlining each of purple dots. Towards the bottom of the painting there is a scattering of pale yellow dots, and towards the top of the painting there are a few dark pink dots. - click to view larger image — *Mungily*

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