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‘This is out on Fitzroy. That’s where I grew up. Caravans, vegie garden, dingo scalps and boab tree. I used to go and get the middle part of the cabbage and eat it while it is still in the ground and the carrots I used to pull it out from the ground take a couple of bites and put it back in the ground. My dad came along and saw the middle part of the cabbage missing and then went to pull some carrots up and saw that the carrots had been eaten up. He thought we had an animal under the ground eating our carrots. One day he was rescuring a beautiful parrot from the big boab tree and I did not know he was up that tree and done my normal routine with the veggies and got caught out big time along with a flogging.

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: ROSELEEN PARK

Language: English, Gija, Kriol

Community: Warmun

Biography:

Roseleen Park was born in Derby in 1970. She grew up in Fitzroy Crossing, being raised mostly by her stepfather Geoffrey Adams and mother Rosie Park. Roseleen Park went to school in Fitzroy Crossing and visited her family in Warmun Community during the holidays with her mother. From 1980 to 1983 Park attended school in Derby, and then went to boarding school at Perth's Pallantine Centre for her high-school education. In 2004,Roseleen got her fisrt job as a (AEW)Aboriginal Education Worker at Fitzroy District High School. Roseleen Park moved to Warmun Community and continues to live there with her son Wayne Hughes and niece Shanchia Hughes. She began painting in 2006 and has quickly joined the ranks of promising young ochre painters. Park paints country on Alice Downs, Yarunga (Chinamen Garden) Texas, Lissadell, Turkey Creek, Violet Valley and Chamberlain. These are the traditional lands of Park's mother and grandfather. 'My extended family is art people: Madigan Thomas, Shirley Purdie, Lena Nyadbi, Betty Carrington and Hector Jandany.' Jane Yalunga, Anthony Yalunga, Katie Cox and June Peters are all Park's first cousins and are also artists. June Peters is Park's first cousin and the mother of her niece Shanchia, who is one of Warmun's very young painters. Deanne Peters is Shanchia's elder sister. Warmun artists Nancy Nodea and Churchill Cann are Park's cousins. Park says, 'That's the Gija side.'

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