Paji Honeychild Yankarr

Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr (c. 1912 - 4 December 2004) was an Australian aboriginal artist.[1][2]

Yankarr was born at Kuntumarrajarra in the Great Sandy Desert,[1] and moved in the 1960s to Cherrabun; in the 1970s, she moved to an old mission near Junjuwa. There, Yankarr joined the Karrayili Adult Education Centre and started painting. She took part in a joint exhibition at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1991 and painted throughout the 1990s.[1] Yankarr has worked on paper and on canvas, and her work has been described as: "blatant records of her desert country with the recurring theme in her works being the Jila (waterhole) of various sites in the Great Sandy Desert".[2]

Four of her works are in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.[3]

In 2014, the ReDot Fine Art Gallery in Singapore held an exhibition "Kurntumarrajarra - The Estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr", named after her birthplace.[4]

References
  1. Dayman, Karen (June 2005). "Paji Honeychild Yankarr (obituary)". Artlink. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. "Kurntumarrajarra: The Estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr" (PDF). ReDot Gallery Newsletter. June 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. "Paji Honeychild Yankarr". Collection Online. National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. ReDot Fine Art Gallery (26 June 2014). "Kurntumarrajarra - The Estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr". Issuu. Retrieved 2 August 2018. Includes online illustrated catalogue of exhibition


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