This art has sand from my country. The colours are the secrets of the land, story telling in the sand. Symbols are of the people, circles of life. Sacred place, water. It was how people told stories
Name: Doreen Abbott
Language: Australian, Pertame
Community: Ballarat
Biography:
I was born in Alice Springs and raised on a cattle station at Idracowra (180kms sth of Alice).
None of my family spoke english , but spoke pertame. This was the language I have used for most of my life.
When I was young, I listened to my sister’s stories, because she was the storyteller. She taught me to understand Aboriginal symbols and in the 1980’s I started painting the stories of what was on my mind.
I paint my culture and stories and also enjoy burning my designs onto wood.
I have been living in Ballarat for a few years, but regularly travel back to my home country to See my family in Alice Springs NT.
Bilura Bilura means Wedge-Tail Eagle in Barkindji langauge. Here Bilura protects the land and watches over our ancestors and people
