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The bomb, Maralinga, Emu Field

‘When my mother was a young girl about 15 years, the people were living in the bush in wiltjas in the Spinifex Country.My mother told me this story, how the people were all sitting down and they saw a big light and then lots of smoke, the smoke just went up and up and up.The people were frightened they thought it was a walpa pulka (big storm) or the wanampi (rainbow serpent). My Uncle, my mother’s brother had gone to hunt bush tucker in Maralinga Country, he never came back, he died from that bomb, that’s a true story’.

Categories: Papulankutja Artists

Name: Dwayne Lyons


Community: Blackstone


Biography:

Dwayne is a young portrait and land scape artists depicting the his Tjukurrpa (dreamtime stories) within a realistic painting approach.

His knowledge of painting and colour use from his mothers side of the family Pamela Hogan  


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