Name: Doris Doherty
Language: Gooniyandi
Biography:
Doris is a Gooniyan woman. She was born at Go Go Station. “We bin working in the house for the Kardiya (white people), in the kitchen, washing clothes and clean up, watching and watering garden and flowers. We moved to Bayulu, other side of Gilarong”. Doris went to school at Go Go station. her mother and father were Gooniyan – they passed in Bayulu. When she was young she was separated from her only sibling, a brother who was taken by Kardiya as part of the stolen generation.
Doris painted at the old Mangkaja with then Director Karen Dayman. She painted Mangari (food) bush tucker, Cat fish, crocodile, trees and water.
She has a son in Wangkajunga and a daughter in Bayulu – Alice Doherty who she taught to paint. Doris works at the old clinic now in Bayulu making seed necklaces, coolamon and singing sticks.
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PAINTING THEMES:
Bush Tucker
Trees
Water
Tutujarti Trees (Desert Walnut) Tutujarti trees all around the two waterhole called Nyijil Nyijil, that way out in the desert; That’s my family country, my family comes from the desert. It has a nut called Read more…
Jurnta (Bush Onion) JURNTA that we digem up from the ground sometime we eat it raw or sometime we throw in the coals
Bush Onion (Jurnta) This country Booloowatu. My community grows bush onions. During the dry season jurnta goes black. This means they are ripe (cooked) and ready to dig up and cook on the coals. The Read more…