This work depicts the remarkably diverse flora found through Martu Country. These plants are not only vital as significant food sources, but also celebrated for their aesthetic splendour. In the context of the often harsh and arid environments in which desert flowers bloom, their vibrancy, delicacy, and variation become even more spectacular.
Name: Delicia Attwood
Community: Kunawarritji
Biography:
“I like to paint flowers, desert flowers. My mother was an artist, but she always do weaving. She always sit down all day in the shade. Doing those baskets. Talk story same time, laughing.”
-Delicia Attwood
Delicia grew up in Parngurr Community, this is where her mother’s (Leonie Attwood) side of the family is from. She lived here for most of her younger years with her grandparents.
She later moved to Kunawarritji Community, where she now lives. This is where her father’s side of the family is from.
Delicia learnt to paint organically, watching her grandparents at work and in this way absorbing information on style and story. In her own paintings, Delicia focuses primarily on painting the different types of wildflowers found around the desert.
As stated by Delicia, she looks forward to learning new stories and experimenting with different ways to paint ngurra (home camp, country) as her painting career matures. She also wants to try basket weaving. Delicia enjoys painting as an opportunity to sit down with others.
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