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Portrait of Clifford Brooks. - click to view larger image

born 1959, Kartujarra, Manyjilyjarra language groups, Karimarra skin group, Wiluna community, Tjukurba Gallery

Clifford was born at Jigalong mission. He was educated on the mission and later at Port Hedland, but returned to Jigalong to work as a builder and cattleman. In the 1990s he was the chairperson of the community.

In recent years Clifford has explored his personal and artistic heritage by painting the story and following in the artistic footsteps of his father’s brother, Rover Thomas.

A vertically striped painting on brown linen in black and maroon with four stripes in yellow down the centre. The strip is punctuated by brown and black circles. Top left is an oval filled with small brown boomerang-like shapes and red dots. - click to view larger image

Blood on the Ground, Wells 33–41
A painting on canvas with brown and black concentric rings that run diagonally from the top left corner to the lower right corner connected by three parallel wavy brown lines with yellow dots between. At the lower left and upper right is a concentric brown, yellow and black circle with lines radiating out from it. Each line terminates in a smaller concentric ring in brown, black and yellow. Along the centre edge on each side is a row of three concentric circles in brown, black and yellow. The background is made up of small maze-like line filled sections in gold colour on black. - click to view larger image

Canning Stock Route Country
An acrylic circle and line painting on linen, featuring seven blue circles painted along the artwork at equidistant points. The rest of the painting illustrates clusters of orange, brown, tan and white lines. - click to view larger image

Kunawarritji to Wajaparni
A rectangular painting on canvas with a wavy line of concentric brown, black and yellow circles running diagonally down the painting from top left to bottom right. There is a white shape with yellow edging near the bottom right of the painting. The background has three different coloured sections with maze like line patterns across all of them. The top is white and brown, the middle is orange and black and the lower section is yellow and brown. - click to view larger image

Lake Disappointment
A painting on brown linen with a black background overlaid with vertical stripes in dark red with two narrow vertical sections in orange stripes. In between these orange sections there is a wavy vertical row of brown and black circles. - click to view larger image

My Father Looking for his Brother

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