Kim Mahood returns to the Tanami Desert again and again in Position Doubtful

By Susan Wyndham
Updated August 28 2016 - 10:53pm, first published August 22 2016 - 5:09pm
Artist and author Kim Mahood with her dog Pirate in her studio near Canberra. Photo: Andrew Meares
Artist and author Kim Mahood with her dog Pirate in her studio near Canberra. Photo: Andrew Meares
Artist and author Kim Mahood says words are the most powerful medium for her ideas. Photo: Andrew Meares
Artist and author Kim Mahood says words are the most powerful medium for her ideas. Photo: Andrew Meares

On the morning I meet the artist and writer Kim Mahood, she has driven her ute nonstop for 1000 kilometres on her way home to Canberra from the Tanami Desert in Western Australia, a journey she has made back and forth across the continent for more than 20 years with the compulsion of a migrating bird.

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