Whole lot family going for swimming. We all going. Some going for withcety grub, some going for swimming. We going in Toyotas. It was a cloudy day and it was weekend. We just going for the day, not sleep. Me and my partner watching Layla and Dean and Dean’s friends swimming. Josie and Netty, they went for witchetty grubs with other families. Karen mob is cooking kangaroo tail.
Name: Dalissa Brown
Community: Ntaria
Biography:
Dalissa Brown was born in Alice Springs in 1997 and grew up in Hermannsburg, NT.
Dalissa is the youngest of all the Hermannsburg Potters. She started working at the pottery in 2020 at 23 years old, working alongside her grandmother and senior artist Dawn Wheeler, who has been teaching her stories and how to make pots. Also present with Dalissa in the studio is her mother, fellow artist Shirley Wheeler and her daughter, much loved Layla.
2023 has seen Dalissa's painting and building skills develop phenomenally as she has applied herself to studies in ceramics through TAFE at Charles Darwin University.
Dalissa was a finalist in the 2024 Ravenswood Women's Art Prize in the Indigenous Emerging Artist category.
Status: Stock AS Colour Uni-sex Cut Chestnut Brown 100% Cotton Digital Print In language we say “Ntaria-rinya ntjaarrala etna nama urrknga mpaaranha!” and that means “Ntaria mob, they make things from clay!”
Yalka (Bush Onion) All the family digging for yalka (bush onion) in Ntaria. Kwatja kngarrala nhamalanga yalka mangkama. Wild onions grow after lots of rain.
Kutjera (Bush Sultana/Desert Raisin) This is bush raisin, Kutjera. We find it near Ntari and 8 mile.