These rockholes holds all the barramundi (parlka) that live in these rockholes.When the barramundi feels hot they go inside the rockholes to cool. Water snales (kalpurtu) also lives in these rockholes/river (likil)
Dimensions: 90x120cm: Atelier acrylic paint on canvas
Name: Sonia Kurarra
Language: Walmajarri
Community: Noonkoonbah
Biography:
Sonia Kurarra grew up in the river country at Yungngora (Noonkanbah). She used to help the kindergarten teacher with teaching art. They used to take the children out to the Sandy Billabong and teach them how to paint and dance. There is a ngarrangkarni [Dreamtime] snake that lives in the billabong. His name is Nangurra.
Sonia began painting at Mangkaja in the early 1990s working mostly on paper. Since 2008, Sonia has been working predominantly on canvas and her practice has become more consistent. She has exhibited in numerous group shows and had an overwhelming response to her first solo shows in 2009.
Sonia paints the sandy billabong country along the stretch of the Fitzroy River that runs directly behind the community. After the food waters recede, there are billabongs that hold a plentiful supply of parlka [barramundi], kurlumajarti [catish] and bream. She paints gapi [fish], parrmarr [rocks] where the Fish is cooked, ngurti [coolamon] and a karli [boomerang].
Sonia paints these images over and over as though they are etched into her psyche; works that are linear representations in monotones and others that are layers lathered on with wild and confident brush strokes. These contemporary compositions display an outstanding understanding of colour.
Pamarr Pamarr (rocks) at river. Dimensions: 90x120cm: Atelier acrylic paint on canvas
Martuwarra Sonia was born by a billabong at Noonkanbah community. Her parents were Walmajarri whose movements led them to live by the Fitzroy River. Sonia has lived most her life at Noonkanbah. A compulsive artist, Read more…
Kirriwirri Jila (waterhole) “My mothers and fathers country, right out in the Great Sandy Desert – Wankatjunga country.” Dimensions: 60x90cm: Atelier acrylic paint on canvas