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How did you get to this style of painting?

“Do you mean, what have I done with my life? (chuckles to herself) To me these paintings are a sense of energy. So if I see someone and they’re happy, I paint a happy vibe. Cos their spirit is happy. And sometimes it’s hard because on the outside they’re real happy but on the inside they’re real sad. Sometimes you do stuff (like a painting) and it adds up later on. But I still don’t know what it means and don’t know where my style comes from because it’s both the path I walk on and the cracks in the dirt. It’s like looking at a landscape but I haven’t been there yet. Maybe I’ll get there one day. I believe things happen for a reason.”

– Sylvia Wilson

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Untitled

How did you get to this style of painting?

“Do you mean, what have I done with my life? (chuckles to herself) To me these paintings are a sense of energy. So if I see someone and they’re happy, I paint a happy vibe. Cos their spirit is happy. And sometimes it’s hard because on the outside they’re real happy but on the inside they’re real sad. Sometimes you do stuff (like a painting) and it adds up later on. But I still don’t know what it means and don’t know where my style comes from because it’s both the path I walk on and the cracks in the dirt. It’s like looking at a landscape but I haven’t been there yet. Maybe I’ll get there one day. I believe things happen for a reason.”

– Sylvia Wilson

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Kirriwirri – Wilson

“This place is where my family is from, the Great Sandy Desert. My Mum’s side family. I learnt how to paint this place from my old people there.” – Wilson Mandijalu-Jadai

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Seeded bush medicine leaves

“A long time ago in the Great Sandy Desert, people boiled medicine leaves whenever they got sick to make themselves better. Like our grandmother.” – Agnes Frank

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Mangala Country

“A landscape of that beautiful pebble and colour rocks. Beautiful colour. Mangala Country is my mum’s country. It’s that way near Joanna Springs” – Veronica Yanawana

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Desert sand and waterholes

“This painting is about the small waterholes along the Great Sandy Desert near my grandfathers country. The brown desert sand and the hills” – Bibianna Tumbler

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Desert sand and waterholes

“This painting is about the brown-red desert sand in the Great Sandy Desert and small waterholes and different colour flowers that grows after the rain season” – Bibianna Tumbler