The Gumtree as medicine: we use the leaves to make bush medicine, we boil the leaves in the fire, and inhale the smells, it goes into the body and heals us from illnesses like the flu, bone aches and other infections.
Name: Hubert Pareroultja
Language: Luritja, Western Aranda
Community: Ntaria
Biography:
HUBERT PAREROULTJA is a senior Western Aranda-Luritja man who lives in his homeland, Kulpitharra / Luntharra outstation west of Hermannsburg (Ntaria).
Hubert has been painting landscape watercolours since he was a young boy thus following in the footsteps of his father Reuben Pareroultja and Uncles Otto and Edwin Pareroultja. Reuben, Otto and Edwin were part of the original Hermannsburg School watercolour movement and were all acclaimed artists.
When Hubert was a kid he watched the original Hermannsburg School watercolour artist Albert Namatjira and his father and uncles as they painted. Hubert paints many of the same locations that Namatjira and the Pareroultja brothers painted in particular Hermannsburg, Mt Sonder/Rutjipma and James Range. Hubert lives and works in the Western MacDonnell Ranges to this day. His work is displayed in many important collections.
