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PALANY

‘This painting is about an old lady called Palany. Palany was an old wise woman, but she also was a mean old woman. She would walk from country to country looking for younger men. Palany started walking from Jigalong, making her way up north, following the Canning Stock Route. She found that Yakararra was good living country. Then she moved onto Billuna, stealing young men to make them her husband. Palany always had a young man for one night and then killed them. All the Walmajarri people got worried. So all the men agreed to kill her. But old Palany was clever and magic. The Walmajarri people tried all different ways to try to kill her, but she was too clever. So later on, year by year, Palany got very old, she went to live at Yakararra. The Walmajarri people from Billuna, Nookanbah and Yakanarra went at night to Palany’s camp fire. While she was asleep, the men got their spears, and they speared her until she was dead. Today at Yakanarra community, which is my father’s country, you can see a big rock at the front of the community towards the sunrise. This is where old Palany lies, you can see that big rock in this painting.”, says Mark

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: MARK NODEA

Language: Gija

Community: Warmun

Biography:

Mark Nodea is one of the most exciting artists of his generation in Warmun today. Informed by the oral histories and culture of his Gija country and the contemporary environment his works are bold, strong and deep in character.

As a child growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s Mark was schooled in the two-way learning, founded by renowned Warmun artists including Queenie McKenzie, Hector Jandany, Jack Britten and Rover Thomas at the Ngalangangpum School, which saw the beginning of the Contemporary Art Movement in Warmun.

This two-way education gave Mark a strong grounding in Gija language and culture, alongside western education, which informs his practice today. Mark paints his mother, artist Nancy Nodea’s Ngarrgooroon country which extends around Texas Station and down South to Purnululu. In 2001 Mark produced a design for a limited edition silver dollar commemorative coin for the Royal Australian Mint, which featured a fleet-footed bounding Kangaroo. The Royal Australian Mint has only released 10 such coins since 1983.

In 2013, Mark was awarded the City of Greater Geraldton Award for Excellence at the 2013 Mid-West Art Prize. 

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