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The Power of the Kimberley: Warmun


AM 293/02 Gordon Barney Birrno - Alice Downs Station 2002
Natural ochre & pigment on canvas 140 x 100 cm $3,300.00

This place is on Gordon's country, not far from Alice Downs Homestead. Here there is a spring that never runs dry and which feeds a big rockhole and river (blue) that flows to 14 Mile Hole.  Birrno Hill is the big black hill at front left which can be seen from the Great Northern Highway in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. You can only walk to this place as the gap in the ranges is too narrow for motor cars. When Gordon worked on Alice Downs station as a stockman he used to come here for holidays and to "hunt porcupine and kangaroo."