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Kalumpuu – Spear

In Australia before teh first Europeans laid thier foo here (15th Century), our Dreamtime lives here for a very long time. This painting is on the North Australia WA ( The  East Kimberley). It sits near Warrarmarn (Warmun). The painting lay into our ancestors country ( Kija Country) – (Warmun tribal language). The hill was named Kalumpuu (Spear). The Kalumpuu Platform has seen lots of our people (Kija). comes and gones. This painting Kalumpuu Hills, seeing our Laws and Cultures, ceremony, good and bad. The Kalumpuu saw lots of our Kija people looked after. The bad reason, Kalumpuu Hill has seen lots of the Kija people being murdered.

The big issue is to know more about the painting ( Kalumpuu Hill). If Kalumpuu Hill could only talk to us to today for more stories. 

Categories: WARMUN ART

Name: MARK NODEA

Language: Gija

Community: Warmun

Biography:

Mark Nodea is one of the most exciting artists of his generation in Warmun today. Informed by the oral histories and culture of his Gija country and the contemporary environment his works are bold, strong and deep in character.

As a child growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s Mark was schooled in the two-way learning, founded by renowned Warmun artists including Queenie McKenzie, Hector Jandany, Jack Britten and Rover Thomas at the Ngalangangpum School, which saw the beginning of the Contemporary Art Movement in Warmun.

This two-way education gave Mark a strong grounding in Gija language and culture, alongside western education, which informs his practice today. Mark paints his mother, artist Nancy Nodea’s Ngarrgooroon country which extends around Texas Station and down South to Purnululu. In 2001 Mark produced a design for a limited edition silver dollar commemorative coin for the Royal Australian Mint, which featured a fleet-footed bounding Kangaroo. The Royal Australian Mint has only released 10 such coins since 1983.

In 2013, Mark was awarded the City of Greater Geraldton Award for Excellence at the 2013 Mid-West Art Prize. 

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