Purnululu by Queenie McKenzie

Queenie calmly states "My name bin grow up from these hills" and her paintings reflect her close affinity with her beloved country of Purnululu and Texas Downs station. Painted on a wooden board in 1984 this is one of Queenie’s earliest works of Purnululu where Raymond Wallaby set up his camp to negotiate a partnership with the government for the management of the national park. Highly political, Queenie was never afraid to confront contentious issues and she often painted the contested history of the past. Her Mistake Creek Massacre is now part of the National Museum’s collection.