I paint my Mother’s country. I travelled all around my country with my mother when I was child, my mother showed me the bush medicine and bush tucker.
The community of Ampilatwatja made a conscious decision not to paint altyerr (dreaming stories). The artists paint their country where those stories sit.
Name: Lucy Pula Luck
Language: Alyawarre
Community: Ampilatwatja
Biography:
I was born in Alice Springs and grew up and went to school at an out station called Irrultja. I now live in Ampilatwatja with my two children, husband and my family. My mother painted and that is where I learnt to paint. She painted bush medicine, and now I also paint bush medicine. Bush medicine is important for treating illness such as a bad cold. We pass this knowledge onto our children.
Levina Pitjara Morton – Atyenh Amper (My Country) When I paint, I think of the stories my Grandmother Lilly tells me of how she and her family used to live. Where they lived on her Read more…
Joyanne Pitjara Morton – Tharrkarr (Honey Grevillea) Tharrkarr (honey grevilla) – these are in bloom across my country after the rains, the arlketh (white gum) also flower in the gum trees near where I live.
Joyrene Ngwarraye Holmes – Alpeyt Penh Kwaty (Flowers After Rain) The land is blooming with flowers after the rain. This is when I will go and collect the bush flowers for my home