BORN: c 1938
REGION: BALGO HILLS- WESTERN AUSTRALIA
LANGUAGE GROUP: WANGKATJUNKA
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Lucy Loomoo was born c 1938, near Jupiter Well in The Great Sandy Desert, far to the South of Balgo and close to the middle stretches of the Canning Stock Route. She spent her childhood in Ilangarri, her Mother’s and Grandfather’s country.
Later, she, her husband and first child, walked all the way up the Canning Stock Route to arrive at Old Balgo Mission.
Lucy and her family lived at the Old Mission where Lucy tended the sheep and goats. Here they had another child before moving to the new mission site in the 1960s. Lucy gave birth to another two children and worked as a gardener at the new mission site.
She commenced painting for Warlayriti Artists in 1988 and usually depicts the Tingari Dreaming. She also paints country called Ingangarri.
This place takes its name from the soakwater, or ‘Tjurrnu’. The Tjurrnu, Ingangarra is near Well 33 on The Canning Stock Route. The small dots surrounding Ingangarra depict karkugura, a small sweet berry collected in the area.
Her bold colours and her adherence to the traditional way of expressing Women’s Law, make Lucy’s paintings very recognisable.