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Young boy seeking ground sugar bag by Madeline Purdie

“This is a story about a young boy seeking ground sugar bag.

All my elders were out looking for ground sugar bag near the Mabel down hill, they been looking all day they were all weak and tired from digging in the ant hills looking for this ground sugar bag.

they told one young boy who was in the group with them to climb up and look around where the fat anthills (termite mounds) are that may have the ground sugar bag.

He climbed up Mabel down hill, he said nothing here in the middle where we been looking, only sunrise side and sun set side the young boy said.

On his way back down the hill he turned into a rock dreaming that’s him on the top of this hill in my painting.”

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: Madeline Purdie


Language: Gija


Community: Warmun


Biography:

Madeline Purdie was born in Wyndham, attended Ngalangangpum primary school in Warmun then she completed her secondary education in Broome.

Madeline is the Chair of Warmun Community and is also the Manager of the Warmun Aged Care program.

Purdie takes her traditional country as the subject of her paintings including her mother, Shirley Purdie's country. She also paints Ngarranggarni stories from her grandmother and grandfather's country in Norton Bore, Violet Valley and Argyle. She continues to paint the Ngarranggarni stories told to her by her older family members.

Madeline is also an accomplished carver and makes bird sculptures from boab nuts and jarlalu wood.


© the artist / art centre