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Bush Flower

‘When I paint Bush Flower, my painting means all the seasons as they change, and the landscape views, about the Country, and about the place, where the bush tucker and bush medicine can be found. It’s about people going hunting, and about people telling their stories about that’s the time where to find new bush tucker, everything growing. It is like a map and a calendar, and history, genealogy, Everything! I see it like a very BIG picture. In my mind making lots of pictures sharing these stories with others so they can understand. It’s not just a leaf that I’m doing. The painting is the big picture in my mind, spreading everything out before me like a landscape view, and the seasons, and the calendar, and the history, and genealogy, and stories… It’s everything to me. All of what I know. That’s what I’m painting when I paint bush flowers.’

Categories: Tangentyere Artists

Name: Marlene Taylor

Biography:

Marlene Taylor was born at Aputula, also known as Finke. She grew up and was schooled in Alice Springs, attending Sadadeen High School. She has lived most of her adult life at Titjikala, occasionally returning to Alice Springs. Marlene and Tangentyere Artists' Elizabeth Douglas lived alongside one another in Titjikala. She began painting at Tangentyere Artists in 2014. In 2023, she has returned to paint, stopping at Abbott's Camp with her niece, Christine Wirri, also paints at Tangentyere Artists.

 

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