Overview
Lives: Warakurna, WA
Skin: Karimarra
Language: Ngaanyatjarra
Cynthia Burke was born in Alice Springs and grew up in the central desert of Western Australia. She has been a youth and media worker for many years and hosts a weekly radio programme for Radio NGm. Cynthia is an internationally exhibited painter with Warakurna Artists and also works with Tjanpi Desert Weavers. She is one of Maruku’s foremost up and coming wood carvers, and in 2014 became one of its youngest directors. She carries on the traditions of the Tjukurpa, the Law and way of life governing her country.
Courtesy of Maruku Arts
Works
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Cynthia BurkeDesert Snake, 2017Itara - River Red Gum (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis)
58 x 38 cm -
Cynthia BurkeDesert Snake, 2020Itara - River Red Gum (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis)
64 x 8 x 12 cm -
Cynthia BurkeKapi Punungka - Water In The Wood, 2023Muur-Muurpa - Desert Bloodwood (Corymbia Terminalis)
7 x 1339 cmSold -
Cynthia BurkeKapi Punungka - Water In The Wood, 2022Muur-Muurpa - Desert Bloodwood
109 x 24 x 36 cm$ 4,800.00 -
Cynthia BurkeKapi Tjukurla Tjuta €“ Waterholes, 2023Burnt Etching On Plywood
120 x 120 cm -
Cynthia BurkeNgayuku Ngura - My Country, 2022Burnt Etching On Plywood
60 x 60 cm -
Cynthia BurkeNgayuku Ngura - My Country, 2022Burnt Etching On Plywood
60 x 90 cm
Exhibitions
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Centering
Group Show 26 June - 24 August 2024At mid-year we're reflecting on our exhibitions thus far and preparing for the projects ahead. We've rehung the few remaining paintings by Sarah Brown alongside artists of that country to...Read more -
Waru Walkat Junanyi - Drawing On Fire
Maruku Artists 20 April - 11 May 2024For over 50 years Anangu, Aboriginal people from the Central and Western Deserts, have used heated wire to create markings, filled with stories, on their traditional wooden artefacts and tools....Read more
