Tali and Bush Flower
This painting is about the tali (Sandhills) and the bush flowers that come out after the hot weather rain. There are families staying together and going hunting and collecting seed and bush food.
It is my grandfather’s country.
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Gogo Station
This is about Gogo station on the old road. When I was young we were living there. We used to collect the coloured rocks from the hills, all different colours. Our mothers too and parents collected stones. We would gift it to our teachers and people as a gift from our country.
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Hill Country
THIS IS A WATERHOLE NEAR BLACKSTONE. TRAVELLING THROUGH COUNTRY WITH MY FAMILIES SHOWING ME MY GRANDMOTHER AND GRANDFATHER COUNTRY. COLOURS OF FLOWERS, TREES AND GRASS.
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Seed Collecting – Makurra
Makurra is my favourite season. After the rains have passed, makurra (cold weather) has come full of blossoms. The seeds are now fully formed and have started to bloom brightening up the the country side with beautiful colours.
I paint the seed collecting because I take my children out to collect the seeds when they are ready, then we paint and make jewellery with them i also teach them the different seasons.
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Grandfather Country
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Jameson Waterhole
Waterhole and hills, flowers and rocks on this country. Its from my mum and dad’s side at Blackstone.
This is Jameson where I used to walk around when I was a kid.
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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, Sonia for a long time was a teacher’s aid at the local school where she facilitated art making with the children. Illustrative of her attachment to the country where she grew up, an intimate life with the river, Sonia’s art is a saturation of river country motifs, be it parlka (barramundi), brim, tortoise, stingray, pandanus trees or the water itself. “Martuwarra is my river country; this painting is all about the Fitzroy River which flows down through Noonkanbah where I live. All kinds of fish live in the water, we catch big mob of fish here. I like Parlka (barramundi). We catch catfish and brim here too. Nganku (shark), Wirritunany (sawfish) and Stingray also live here. These fish live in these waters long after the flood has gone. Also this painting is about barramundi swimming on the surface of the water, you can also see the Wakiri (pandanus tree) and rocks all around. When the barramundi get tired they go back into the rock holes. These rock holes hold all the Parlka (barramundi) that live in the river. Kalpurtu (creator serpent-type being) also live in these rock holes and swim all around the Palma (creeks) and all around the Wakiri that grows in the river.”
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Jarridi Jila
This is Jarridi Waterhole. People come to this place for meeting and dance.
