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Barney Ellaga

Jinalirri A3558

Jinalirri A3558

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Size: 157 x 128cm
acrylic on linen

Annual Rental:
$46 per week
(plus delivery &ย install costs)

Barney Ellaga was a senior law man of the Alawa community in the Northern Territory. He has intimate knowledge of his traditional homelands, and it is his country and its ancestral stories that his work represents.

Ellaga mastered western art mediums to transform ancient cultural stories into contemporary masterpieces.

'Jinalirri is the emu, very important for us mob. In this one he made a nest but no eggs. Sometimes they make nest but got no eggs. They fussy, sometimes make nest for no reason.' - Barney Ellaga 2003

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