Cynthia Burke

2020, burnt etching on plywood
40 x 40 cm
Cat No WB872-20

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Punu – Living Wood
Maruku Arts

Cynthia Burke was born in Alice Springs and grew up in the central desert of Western Australia. She has been a youth and media worker for many years and hosts a weekly radio programme for Radio NGm. Cynthia is an internationally exhibited painter with Warakurna Artists and also works with Tjanpi Desert Weavers. She is one of Maruku’s foremost up and coming wood carvers, and its youngest directors. She carries on the traditions of the Tjukurpa, the Law and way of life governing her country.

Walka is Desert design and inextricably linked with Tjukurpa: the Law and way of life of Anangu (Central and Western Desert Aboriginal people). The symbols were traditionally used in cave, ground and body paintings, in story telling, teaching and signalling inheritance.

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