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Bailinyin – Eileen Bray Joomena

The painting is of the country of Spring Vale Station, Bailinyin. Recently, in the wet season, Rusty traveled to this place with his grandchildren. There they were shown how to catch and kill a goanna, they learnt new Gija words, they learnt about Rusty’s life on this country – it is where he was born and where he worked as a young man. They leant about historical, complicated politics of the land and Rusty’s experience of it and relations to it. In the left hand corner, Rusty has painted red soils plains, the black area is the soil and the yellow ochre parts are the flat country. The grey is Warnidiwal creek. It is tributary of Bullock Hole, a popular rest spot for Rusty and his family and others who lived and worked on Springvale station.

I’ve been given this story to paint, Rusty gave it to me.

-Eileen Bray Joomena

Categories: WARMUN ART

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'.

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