BEAVER LENNON

Language: Mirning and Antikirinjara

Community: Ceduna

Art Centre: Arts Ceduna

Mable Creek is my Grandfathers Homeland; it is about 50 kms Northwest of Coober Pedy on the old road to Alice Springs. My visit to my Grandfathers Country inspired me to Paint Mable Creek, the Countryside was very lush at the time of my visit after big rains in the Area. When it rains, Mabel creek becomes green the creeks flooded and full, the trees are growing.

Beaver Lennon.

Beaver Lennon was born in 1988 in Adelaide and has lived most of his life in Ceduna on the Westcoast of South Australia. He comes from a Mirning and Antikirinjara family of well-respected artists and writers who has greatly influenced his work, Beaver’s grandmother Verna Lawrie, his late mother Bernadette Lennon-Lawrie, and his late grandfather Stanley Lennon all contributed to his artistic vision. Beaver’s earlier work was inspired by his grandmother’s Dreaming stories of the Bunda Cliffs along the Great Australian Bight in South Australia, though his practice now is heavily influenced by his grandfather’s Dreaming of Malu Tjuta (many kangaroos).