Painted in 1993, Canning Stock Route, Long Long Way, is a nostalgic view of Rover Thomas’ homelands: the title of the work reveals a sense of cultural and familial distance, and a longing to return. The painting was made at Warmun for a local nurse, and although it is painted on a canvas marked Waringarri Arts, the official agent of Warmun artists in Kununurra, the painting was given to the nurse …

Provenance

Sotheby's Australia, Important Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, 24/07/2007, Lot No. 132; Private collection, Sydney