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Loongkoonan | |
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| Born | c. 1910 Kimberley, Western Australia, Australia |
| Died | 2018 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Known for | Painting |
Daisy Loongkoonan (c. 1910 – 2018) was an Australian Aboriginal artist and elder from the Nyikina people of the central western Kimberley region in Western Australia. Loongkoonan was born at Mount Anderson near the Fitzroy River. Her parents worked on cattle stations, and as she grew up, Loongkoonan followed them, mustering sheep and cooking in stock camps. Later she rode horses and mustered cattle.
During the wet season, Loongkoonan would follow her people to their traditional lands, where they would undergo ceremonies and collect bush foods, medicines and the prized "limmiri" (spinifex wax). Loongkoonan used this time to go footwalking around the 133,000 hectares of land. She believed that "Footwalking is the proper [only] way to learn about country and remember it.”[1]
In 2005 Loongkoonan began painting through the arts workshop Manambarra Aboriginal Artists in Derby, Western Australia. Her shimmering depictions of bush tucker received immediate acclaim, being exhibited in every state and territory of Australia. Her work has been influential in inspiring a new generation of Nyikina artists, including Peggy Wassi. Loongkoonan died in 2018.[2]
- ^ “Loongkoonan.” Loongkoonan-AGSA, Art Gallery of Southern Australia, 2016, www.agsa.sa.gov.au/whats-on/exhibitions/2016-adelaide-biennial-australian-art-magic-object/loongkoonan/.
- ^ "Loongkoonan". Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Retrieved 23 January 2021.