Tarku Rosie Tarco © Mangkaja Arts Center, Fitzroy Crossing, WA

A beautiful painting by Rosie of country where she was born. Tarku Rosie had never seen and airplane or automobile before emerging from the bush and knew no English.


USD $4750

A striking painting by Tarku Rosie rendered in complimentary colors providing a dramatic chromatic contrast of trees and spinifex country in the Great Sandy Desert where she was born. Tarku Rosie had never seen and airplane or automobile before emerging from the bush and knew no English.


USD $4000

Tarku Rosie Tarco paints out of the Mangkaja Arts Center at Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. She is the full sister of Pijaju Peter Skipper. Tarku Rosie has an exhilirating palette and paints the vast expanses of the life and plants of her country, the Great Sandy Desert. Like many of her contemporary painters at Mangkaja, one dominate theme both visually and subjectively is the waterhole. Tarku Rosie was born at a soakwater called Payinjarra in the Great Sandy Desert.