Paji Honeychild Yankarr

Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr (c. 1912 - 4 December 2004) was an Australian aboriginal artist.[1][2]

She was born at Kuntumarrajarra in the Great Sandy Desert,[1] and moved in the 1960s to Cherrabun and in the 1970s to an old mission near Junjuwa. There she joined the Karrayili Adult Education Centre and started painting. She took part in a joint exhibition at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in 1991 and painted throughout the 1990s.[1] She has worked on paper and on canvas, and her work has been described as: "blatant records of her desert country with the recurring theme in her works being the Jila (waterhole) of various sites in the Great Sandy Desert".[2]

Four of her works are in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria.[3]

In 2014, the ReDot Fine Art Gallery in Singapore held an exhibition "Kurntumarrajarra - The Estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr", named after her birthplace.[4]

References
  1. Dayman, Karen (June 2005). "Paji Honeychild Yankarr (obituary)". Artlink. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  2. "Kurntumarrajarra: The Estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr" (PDF). ReDot Gallery Newsletter. June 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  3. "Paji Honeychild Yankarr". Collection Online. National Gallery of Victoria. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
  4. ReDot Fine Art Gallery (26 June 2014). "Kurntumarrajarra - The Estate of Paji Wajina Honeychild Yankarr". Issuu. Retrieved 2 August 2018. Includes online illustrated catalogue of exhibition


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