Willie Kew Sold at Auction Prices

Willie Kew has the bush name Luurn, after the Creation Kingfisher spirit that made the ancestral waterhole at Nyirla, where the artist was born. Willie Kew’s home country is at Nyirla Rockhole, near Well 38 along the Canning Stock Route.

Luurn Willie Kew migrated with other countrymen into the Fitzroy Valley where he worked as a stockman on the cattle stations. When her retired he lived at the community at Wangkatjungka near Christmas Creek station. Here he began painting, focusing on the creation story of his home country Nyirla. Luurn Willie Kew distills the features of the Rockhole and represents the beak of the Kingfisher as it delivers the first people to the Nyirla site.