William Cox Step Daughter - Mervyn Street Cynthia Cox

William Cox Step Daughter - Mervyn Street Cynthia CoxThats my mum, adopted by William Cox (a white station worker on Louisa Downs Station). My granny living with William Cox. One time he got sick, laying down there. You gotta get this rag and put it over his face. Old man laying down crossway. Story told to my by my grandmother and mum. My granny married William Cox. Mervyn Street Lithograph on 300gsm Paper 42 x 64cm Printed in collaboration with Australian Print Workshop, 2025.

bush potato

Hand-carved locally

The blue represents the jila full of water

My Mother's country

When I travel back to my desert country we climb over these jilji (sand hills…

smell of flowers

Encoded within each painting are insights into what makes the Kimberley unique - the astonishing interaction of people

can you move your toes

Isaac Cherel

The green represent the grass all around

) We passed through this place when I was a young girl

Out to Japingka in the Great Sandy Desert