PADDY NYUNKUNY BEDFORD, Untitled, 2006

PADDY NYUNKUNY BEDFORD Gija language, c.1922 - 2007 Untitled, 2006 gouache on acid-free crescent board 51 x 76 cm; 79 x 102 cm (framed) signed verso: PB; adhered verso: D'Lan Contemporary label with cataloguing details PROVENANCE Jirrawun Arts, Western Australia, Cat No. PB WB 3.2006.262 D'Lan Contemporary, Victoria, Cat No. INV-BEDP-0272 The Estate of Paddy Bedford EXHIBITED Paddy Bedford: Gouache, 17 August - 20 September 2024, D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, Victoria ILLUSTRATED Linda Michael (ed.), Paddy Bedford, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2006, p.181 Vanessa Merlino (ed.) Paddy Bedford: Gouache, The Estate of Paddy Bedford and D'Lan Contemporary, Melbourne, 2024, p.64 Paddy Bedford came to painting late in life, yet within a decade he had established himself as one of the most formally assured artists to emerge from the East Kimberley. Working within the Jirrawun Arts collective from its founding in 1998, Bedford distilled the region's ochre palette and topographic authority into compositions of striking economy. This gouache belongs to a body of works on paper in which Bedford translated the scale and gravity of his canvases into a more intimate, immediate medium, closely associated with the Jirrawun studio's working process during the early to mid-2000s. These gouache works held a dual function, serving as sites of formal experimentation while standing as accomplished objects in their own right, carrying the same authority of line and familiarity with country as Bedford's larger canvases. His imagery draws on cultural authority over specific tracts of East Kimberley country, held and transmitted according to Gija Law, rendered not topographically but as a structure of relationships built from contour, void and repetition. Bedford's contribution to the Kimberley painting movement remains the subject of sustained curatorial and scholarly attention, and his work is held in major public collections across Australia. © Paddy Nyunkuny Bedford / The Estate of Paddy Bedford, 2026

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