Spinifex Grass | 90h x 40w | RK947
Not framed or stretched | Acrylic on canvas
Louise Numina was born in 1976 and is an Anmatyerre artist from Ti Tree, 190km North of Alice Springs in Central Australia. She grew up on Stirling Station, a cattle station south of Tennant Creek along with her six sisters and three brothers, where she attended primary school and later moved to Alice Springs to attend Yirara College.
After she completed her school studies Louise moved back to Stirling station and worked with the Community Development Program. Her aunties, famous artists Gloria and Kathleen Petyerre, taught Louise to paint in 1981 and she sold her art through galleries in Alice Springs and across the Northern Territory up to Darwin, where she eventually moved in 1995.
In her paintings, Louise pays homage to the spirit of the various bush plants. The transformation of the land means new growth and regeneration, and so the renewal of bush tucker and plants is important for survival. In this work, her brush strokes, in warm colours, overlap and weave to depict the tangled Spinifex grass that grows in Central Australia and coastal areas.
