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Birnoo Country- Lorraine Daylight

This is a painting of Birnoo Country – Birnoo is on what is now known as Alice Downs Station and belonged to Lorraine’s paternal grandmother.

Lorraine was taught to paint this Country by her father, Warmun artist Gordon Barney.

Gordon was a skilled stockman, horsebreaker and buckjumper and spent much of his early adulthood mustering cattle through this Country. As a result he was intimately familiar with Birnoo and would take his family, including Lorraine, out on to Country during holidays from station work.

As a result of these trips Lorraine learned of her father and grandmother’s Country and gradually began to paint it herself. Birnoo was also rich in ochre, so these trips could double as ochre collection trips, returning to Warmun with a fresh connection to Country and a renewed batch of ochre.

 

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: LORRAINE DAYLIGHT

Language: English, Gija, Kimberley Kriol

Community: Warmun

Biography:

Lorraine Daylight was taught to paint by her senior relatives, Hector Jandany and Jack Britten, who were both established Warmun artists of high regard. Hector was Lorraine's ganggayi (grandfather). Lorraine's father, Gordon Barney, is also a well-known Warmun artist. Lorraine has a close connection to her family's country, mainly because many bush trips are organised by the senior men to go out fishing and hunting for bush turkey, kangaroo and goanna throughout the year. Lorraine takes advantage of these trips and often sends her three boys to experience and learn the bush ways. Lorraine's main themes come from the traditional oral stories of the Ngarrgooroon or Texas Downs Station country. Lorraine's mother, Jeanne Daylight, lived out on Texas Downs Station as a young women. She, too, now lives in Warmun. In 1999, Lorraine won the Encouragement Award at the highly competitive East Kimberley Art Award.

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