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Daisy Kemarre Moss – Lizards Hiding in the Flowers

The lizards we see them hiding under the flowers waiting to catch the insects. The lizards are geckos that are pale with long tails, they live in a hole that they sleep in overnight and wait until the day to catch the insects which are ants and butterflies. They catch the the insects with their long tongues.

They have poison spray on their tails, they sprayed me once. We don’t catch and eat them because they are poison. They come out in spring when the flowers bloom, they hide underneath.

Categories: Artists of Ampilatwatja

Name: Daisy Kemarre Moss

Language: Alyawarr

Community: Ampilatwatja

Biography:

Daisy’s work pays homage to the significance and use of traditional bush medicine, allowing an insight into her community. Yet underneath the iridescent surface, there is an underlying sense that there is more to her landscape than meets the eye.

Daisy’s painting style demonstrates a deep connection to her country, her bushes and wild flowers blend softly into the earth and the artist often employs a subdued and natural palette. Artists from Ampilatwatja often omit the sky from their compositions, allowing the viewer's eye to scan the landscape without a focal point, presenting two viewpoints of the country, combining an aerial and frontal view in the one composition.

The Artists of Ampilatwatja community was established in 1999 near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory. The work produced by the artists is recognisably distinct from other Aboriginal artistic communities, due to the application of fine dots and the often bright and child-like figurative depiction of the land

Daisy is one of the original artists who participated in the Utopian silk batik project in the 1980's. Since then she has been painting with the Artists of Ampilatwatja and has exhibited worldwide.

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