Paddy Jaminji was a pioneer of the East Kimberley style of painting, developed in the nascent community of Warmun (Turkey Creek), Western Australia, throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. Jaminji’s Gija people had established the Warmun Aboriginal community, south of Kununurra, after government changes to pastoral wages (intended to instigate equal pay) forced stock workers, including Jaminji who wa…

Provenance

Mary Macha, Perth; Colin and Elizabeth Laverty, Sydney, acquired in July 1987; Deutscher and Hackett, Sydney, 8 March 2015, lot 32; Private collection, Sydney