‘This is the country of Texas my grandfather place, Hector Jandany walked that country when he was a young man with his mother & father. They walked with him throughout that country in and around Texas.
Betty Carrington told me that story because Hector Jandany told her that story when she was a young girl.
so she has passed this story onto me, her granddaughter.’
Name: NANCY DAYLIGHT
Language: English, Gija, Kimberley Kriol
Community: Warmun
Biography:
Nancy Daylight comes from a large family of painters. Her grandmother is Betty Carrington and her late grandfather was Hector Jandany, both esteemed Warmun painters. Nancy's sister Lorraine Daylight is a well-known Warmun painter. Nancy paints country on Texas Downs Station, where her grandmother Winnie Budbarria is from. She also paints country near the Bungle Bungles, south of Warmun Community.
Nancy is currently working at the Warmun Art Centre and is doing training in media, and in 2013, she collaboratively worked on a multimedia installation at Tactile Arts in Darwin.
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…