Blackwater Rockhole

Debra McDonald Nangala

$4,900.00

Debra paints My Country Blackwater Rockhole, an aerial view of wild flowers across the paddocks of the Station Debra grew up ondepicting her late grandfather’s stories of his country in Lake MacDonald, Gibson Desert.

Debra McDonald Nangala, was born in October 1963 at Papunya Camp. She is the granddaughter of the late Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi (c.1920-1987) who was a Pintubi man from Lake MacDonald in the Gibson Desert, Central Australia. In 1948 he moved to Haasts Bluff and Papunya, and both Debra and Shorty’s stories refer to his country of Lake MacDonald. Debra was married to the nephew of Turkey Tolson and son of the great female artist Mitjili.