Name: Nola Rogers
Language: Walmajarri
Biography:
Nola Rogers is a Walmajarri woman. Her skin group is Nangala.
Her parents came from the desert.
She paints stories of growing up on Gogo Station. She was a mission girl.
Now Nola lives at Guwardi Ngardu Aged Care in Fitzroy Crossing where she came into contact with Mangkaja artists and began painting herself.
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…