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Karlamilyi

“This painting of Karlamilyi represents my ancestral family’s country. The river is flowing to Lake Dora, it has five waterholes in the river system. The green represents the bullrush. Outside of the river are creeks and gullies. The white dots represent the salt from Lake Dora, and the brown marking is sand dunes.’

Karlamilyi, also known as Rudall River National Park, is situated in between the communities of Parnngurr and Punmu and is very beautiful and important country. Rudall River runs through here into the back of Lake Dora, a very large salt warla (lake) that Punmu community sits on the on the edge of.”

Name: Desmond Taylor


Language: Manyjilyjarra, Warnman


Community: Parnngurr


Biography:

Desmond was born in 1964 close in the bed of the Oakover River. Two years later his family moved into Jigalong – they were amongst the last Martu to live entirely in the desert without access to rations. Desmond went to school in Nullagine and Perth and now works as a professional translator and educator as well as an artist. Desmond primarily paints his family’s country around Karlamilyi (Rudall River) and the creation stories for that country, especially the Ngayarta Kujarra Dreaming.


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