This painting is about a place at Alice Downs Station, Eileen’s birthplace, right next to this beautiful big boab tree near the creek there. The Boab we are born under then becomes our tree. We all have our special Boab tree.
Name: Eileen Bray Joomena
Language: English, Gija, Kriol
Community: Warmun
Biography:
Eileen Bray Joomena is a very well-respected language teacher and translator in Warmun Community and is an emerging artist at Warmun Art Centre. She has been involved with the Gija language program at the Ngalangangpum community school in Warmun and IATSIS project with Melbourne Univeristy for many years and has has assisted with many publications that have involved Warmun and Gija language, including the Co-author of the recently published Gija Dictionary. With her keen grasp of both Gija and English and her lively personality Joomoon is seen by many as a pivotal figure and bridge between two worlds.
Joomoon takes her traditional country, Birnuwun (Alice Downs) and its Ngarrangkarni (Dreaming) stories as the subject of her work, most recently drawing on the story of her birth and Ngaginyji Joomooloony; 'My boab tree'.
Holy Spirit in the Land This image is of the Holy Spirit being in the land with the Milky Way in the skies.
PURNULULU- by Josie Drill & Dwayne jessell This painting is a collaboration artworks made by a married couple Dwayne jessell and Josie Drill. Both members of families that are T.O (custodians) of Purnululu. Dwayne paints Read more…
PURNULULU- by Josie Drill & Dwayne jessell This painting is a collaboration artworks made by a married couple Dwayne jessell and Josie Drill. Both members of families that are T.O (custodians) of Purnululu. Dwayne paints Read more…