This is the dry season. When it gets dry every goes brown, even the grass and leaves in the trees. And also the billabong gets dry with only a little bit of water for the animals to drink.
Name: Daisy Japulija
Language: Walmajarri
Community: Noonkoonbah
Biography:
Daisy Japulija was born near Nookanbah under a Konkerberry tree. She grew up in Noonkanbah and worked in the station kitchen until she married Colin Wasi. They left Noonkanbah and travelled around the country. They ended up at Cherrabun Station where they set up camp for a long time. They had one son together.
Daisy started painting at the Nookanbah shearing shed and then in the old Mangkaja shed a long time ago. Previously, paintings done at Yakanarra were sent to Mangkaja. She painted with Yakanarra Adult Education Centre whose main emphasis was the teaching of children, instruction in language and culture and teaching people about painting. Those attending were also taken on excursions to the local waterholes and rivers. Daisy visited her desert country only once when her mother took her there as an adult.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 | Mangkaja Arts 21 Year Anniversary Wirrinyiya ngaragngarag birra ngamoo ngamoo | Tandanya, Adelaide, SA |
2009 | Mangkaja Artists 60x60 | Randell Lane Fine Art, WA |
2009 | Celebrating Country: Kinship and Culture | Seymour College, Glen Osmond, SA |
2009 | Emerging and Re-emerging | Outstation, Darwin |
2009 | Jilas Jaa Parlkas [Waterholes and Barramundi] | Alison Kelly Gallery, Melbourne
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2009 | Shalom Gamarada | Caspary Conference Centre, University of NSW |
2008 | Wet n’ Wild | Artkelch, Freiburg, Germany |
2008 | Mangkaja Arts | A P Bond Art Dealer, Adelaide, SA |
2007 | Palya Art in Melbourne | The Barn, Melbourne |
PUBLIC ART:
2010: Fitzroy Crossing Swimming Pool
2008: Fitzroy Crossing Hospital - paintings on canvas
JILA LIVING WATERHOLE This is a big waterhole. Rain runs into the waterhole. This is good water. My people and my family lives in the desert for many years when rain season comes the waterholes Read more…
Ripples This is about the Fitzroy River and how it changes colour with the different seasons. It becomes a golden muddy colour as the river rises during the wet.
Barramundi “Martuwarra is my river country; this painting is all about the Fitzroy River which flows down through Noonkanbah. l grew up along the Fitzroy Riverside and we used to catch all kinds of fish for Read more…