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Ant Hills – Tatum Rivers

Tatum has found her voice recently painting these beautiful Ant Hills, at times framed as they are and at others whimsically sitting within an East Kimberley landscape. Depicted in the classic Warmun style but with a fresh new take and colour palate. Tatum was drawn to painting antills as they are significant to the Kimberley landscape but also because of their meaning to her and her family. 

Her ancestors were placed in anthills of a particular colour when they passed away as these helped the body to change swiftly from form to soil, and her Jaru family believe anthills are for healing. In this ritual you are “rubbed down using soil from the anthills, and after you wash it off you feel refreshed. This process will wash away any difficult or negative feelings and also heals sickness and colds.”