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Kira Kiro Wet Season by Betty Bundamurra

This 100% cotton T-Shirt design is a reproduction from the painting “Kira Kiro Wet Season”

The Kira Kiro (Gwion or Bradshaw) figures dance to celebrate the wet season. Waterholes fill up,  Yulu—Bush Flowers grow  abundantly,  Langi—Trees grow tall surrounded by pretty  Aru— Rocks.

Betty was born at Karunji station where her father was a stockman. She was born in the bush while her parents were on a walkabout. She came to Kalumburu Mission Convent where she was looked after by Ignatia Ganwalla and the nuns at the age of three, after the death of her mother. She worked in the mission baking bread and the Kalumburu school as a teaching aid. Betty has five children and seven grand children and lives happily with her family in Kalumburu.  She has worked as an arts worker at Kira Kiro Arts Centre since 2009.

 

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Name: Betty Bundamurra

Language: Worrora, Ngarinyin, Wunambal

Community: Kalumburu

Biography:

Betty Bundamurra was born at Karunji station where her father was a stockman. She was born in the bush while her parents were on a walkabout. At the age of three, after the death of her mother, Betty came to Kalumburu Mission Convent where she was looked after by Ignatia Ganwalla and the nuns. She worked in the mission baking bread and at the Kalumburu school as a teaching aid. Betty has five children and eleven grand-children, and has lived happily with her family in Kalumburu. Betty is a prolific artist and has also held the position as senior arts worker at Kira Kiro Artists centre, Kalumburu, from 2012 to 201

Along with other Kalumburu community elder, she established the Kira Kiro Artists centre in 2009. Betty is a prolific artist with a unique visual expression, a storyteller and a poet.  She has also held the position of senior arts worker at Kira Kiro Artists from 2012 to 2019.

She is a graduate of the ANKA Arts-worker Extension Program and the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Desert River Sea Visual Arts Leadership program.

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