Queenie McKenzie

Born on Old Texas Downs Station, east of Turkey Creek, Queenie McKenzie’s mother was a Malngin/Gurindji woman and her father was a white man. In the 1970’s, Queenie and her husband moved to Warmun (Turkey Creek). She commenced painting in the 1990’s and was encouraged in her endeavour by Rover Thomas, one of the best known Kimberley artists. She followed Thomas’s style in mapping her traditional country blending landscape with remembered or witnessed events and mythological information. Her preferred colours were very distinct powdery pink and pale violet made from ochres she mined herself. Collaborating with printmaker, Theo Tremblay, she produced, in 1995, her first prints. In 1998, the government of WA declared her a State Living Treasure for her contribution to the arts and to the teaching of the Kija language.

Texas Hills (1995)

92 x 76cm

Acrylic on canvas

$18,000

Wertim Hill (Near Old River) (1996)

92 x 61cm

Acrylic on canvas

$18,000

Dahlu Dahlu

92 x 163 (inc. frame)

Acrylic and ochre on canvas

$65,000

Untitled

94 x 84cm in frame

Print

$2,500

Chootah - Texas Downs Country

Acrylic on canvas

100 x 65cm

$15,000

Untitled

61 x 82cm

Acrylic and ochres on canvas

$18,000

Rover Thomas Story

Lithograph

$2, 700