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Lorna Fencer was born around 1920 and died in 2006. Endowed with a whole and voluntary character, engaged in the action of redistribution of land to the Aborigines, she quickly set out in search of galleries, without waiting for Lajamanu to finally have a functional cooperative. This independence, Lorna paid for by a weak institutional support. From a talent that ranked her fairly quickly among the greatest of Aboriginal painting, she benefited little from the distribution channels of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, the other great lady of the desert. But Lorna Fencer has remained famous for two reasons: her thirst for colors, all colors, deposited in dots and thick layers, and her extreme greed to paint. Nothing could interrupt the dialogue between the old lady and her canvas when she fixed there, in large precise gestures, the traces of her Dream. And relentlessly, she painted as if the time spent on other things in the first two-thirds of life had to be made up for. Keeper of important Dreams inherited from her father, Lorna was a prominent figure in the Warlpiri community of Lajamanu. The town of Lajamanu is located in the Tamani Desert west of the road from Katherine to Alice Springs. “Woman of the Law”, Lorna started painting late, at the age of almost sixty.
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Lorna Fencer was born around 1920 and died in 2006. Endowed with a whole and voluntary character, engaged in the action of redistribution of land to the Aborigines, she quickly set out in search of galleries, without waiting for Lajamanu to finally have a functional cooperative. This independence, Lorna paid for by a weak institutional support. From a talent that ranked her fairly quickly among the greatest of Aboriginal painting, she benefited little from the distribution channels of Emily Kame Kngwarreye, the other great lady of the desert. But Lorna Fencer has remained famous for two reasons: her thirst for colors, all colors, deposited in dots and thick layers, and her extreme greed to paint. Nothing could interrupt the dialogue between the old lady and her canvas when she fixed there, in large precise gestures, the traces of her Dream. And relentlessly, she painted as if the time spent on other things in the first two-thirds of life had to be made up for. Keeper of important Dreams inherited from her father, Lorna was a prominent figure in the Warlpiri community of Lajamanu. The town of Lajamanu is located in the Tamani Desert west of the road from Katherine to Alice Springs. “Woman of the Law”, Lorna started painting late, at the age of almost sixty.

When was Lorna Napurrurla Fencer born?

The year of birth of the artist is: 1920