top of page
BELINDA GOLDER KNGWARREYE - BUSH PLUM

BELINDA GOLDER KNGWARREYE - BUSH PLUM

SKU: 17099

BELINDA GOLDER KNGWARREYE

BUSH PLUM,  2018
60 x 86 cm
Synthetic Polymer on Canvas

 

REGION

Utopia, NT

 

PROVENANCE
This is Aboriginal Art, Alice Springs
Cooee Art Gallery, Sydney

 

STORY
Belinda is the daughter of noted Utopian artist Janet Golder and is following in the footsteps of other well known artists from the talented Kngwarreye family, most notably Emily Kane, Kudditji and Polly Ngale. She typically pants the same story as Polly, 'Bush Plum', and uses heavily layered paint to depict the foliage of the plant.

The conkerberry (or conkleberry) known as anwekety or bush plum, is a sweet black berry that is favoured by desert Aboriginals. They only grow on the plant (Carissa lanceolata) for a few weeks of the year, however Belinda's people collect plenty of them and store them dry, soaking them in water again before being consumed. The plant of the conkerberry is a tangled, spiny shrub that can grow up to 2m high. After rain fragrant white flowers bloom. This plant also bares medicinal properties. The orange inner bark from the roots can be soaked in water and the resultant solutions can be used as a medicinal wash. This is particularly favoured for skin and eye conditions. The thorns on the shrub can be sued to sure warts.

 

 

ARTIST PROFILE

BELINDA GOLDER KNGWARREYE

    AU$1,500.00Price

    ENQUIRE ABOUT THIS ARTWORK

    Thanks for submitting!

    bottom of page