We used to walk from here to the Station for work. The station was this way (near the hills).
Nancy depicts a scene of the New Camp where her family and her migrated to, when they were served as workers on Texas Station. The circles represent the new camp, and Nancy describes how she and her family used to walk to the Station through the landscape to get to work.
Name: Nancy Nodea
Language: Gija, Kimberley Kriol
Community: Warmun
Biography:
Nancy Nodea grew up and worked most of her early life on Texas Downs Cattle station in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia. On the station Nancy worked in a wide range of roles including checking bores, roadbuilding, milking the goats, making butter and general housework. Nancy began painting in 1994, guided by Rover Thomas and Queenie McKenzie. Nancy has explored contemporary stories that occurred in the East Kimberley over the past 200 years since white settlement. She has told the stories of the white cameleers and massacre sites not far from Warmun in her paintings; she is one of the strongest historical painters at Warmun but also paints her beloved Texas Downs Station country. Nancy and other artists who grew up on this station take an active role in taking young people out to country to hunt, fish and return to traditional ways of living with the land.
Holy Spirit in the Land This image is of the Holy Spirit being in the land with the Milky Way in the skies.
PURNULULU- by Josie Drill & Dwayne jessell This painting is a collaboration artworks made by a married couple Dwayne jessell and Josie Drill. Both members of families that are T.O (custodians) of Purnululu. Dwayne paints Read more…
PURNULULU- by Josie Drill & Dwayne jessell This painting is a collaboration artworks made by a married couple Dwayne jessell and Josie Drill. Both members of families that are T.O (custodians) of Purnululu. Dwayne paints Read more…