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Arrngali (Bush Cherry)

“You can find this arrngali in tali area. It’s bush cherry, the arrngali. You can eat it. The leaves are greeny-blue, it’s got a stick on it. You can cut the sticks and put them in boiling water, the colour is like blackcurrent juice, you can drink that when it’s warm, it’s a good medicine for drinking. For anything, and for the diabetic. That’s what the arrngali is used for. The black and white in the painting is what the inside of the arrngali looks like, the white is the seed, the black part is the cherry. It’s like looking at the cross section. The background is red sand, tali.” – Joyce Dixon

Categories: Ikuntji Artists

Name: Joyce Dixon


Language: Luritja, Pintubi


Community: Haasts Bluff


Biography:

Joyce Dixon was born in 1977 at Papunya, and has been painting since she was around 10 years old. She paints her country, Karrinyarra (Mount Wedge), which is around two hours’ drive north of Haasts Bluff. This is the country of the Napaltjarri women and Japaltjarri men. She was raised partly by Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Paddy Tjungarrayi Carroll, two senior lawmen and renowned artists of the Papunya Tula art movement of the 1970s, and much of Joyce’s childhood was spent steeped in the artistic traditions of this area. Joyce paints a number of stories, including the Snake and Water Dreaming (Ngapa Tjukurrpa), the Witchetty Grub and Snake Dreaming, Bush Onion and Bush flowers. She has inherited these stories from senior relatives on both her mother’s and father’s sides.

She is married to Henry Multa, the brother of Douglas Multa (traditional owner of Haasts Bluff). Joyce lives between her husband's community Ikuntji, her community (Papunya) and Alice Springs. 


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