Provenance and context of painting
• Artist: Esther Furber
• Skin name: Peltharre
• Born: 18 May 1955
• Language: Arrernte
• Residence: Truckies Camp, Alice Springs
• Title: Bush Flowers
• Date: 22 November 2007
• Medium: Acrylic on canvas
• Size: 60 × 55 cm
• Catalogue code: TAEF07C1866
• Provenance: Tangentyere Artists, Alice Springs
• Accompanied by its original Tangentyere Artists Certificate of Authenticity
• The artist’s documented description is: “Bush flowers. They grow in Central Australia, anywhere.”
• The painting uses thousands of closely placed dots to create a large central circular field surrounded by smaller circular forms, set against a contrasting blue ground.
• No particular Dreaming is recorded on the certificate, so the interpretation is limited to the artist’s documented identification of the subject as bush flowers.
