MAGGIE GREEN - MYROODAH STATION DAM

MAGGIE GREEN
MYROODAH STATION DAM,  2024
Acrylic on Canvas
55.5 x 90.5 cm 
 
REGION
Derby, WA
 
PROVENANCE
 Spinifex Hill Studio, WA, Cat No; 24-845
 
STORY
“That's the dam now. Water come from inside- he get full. We always go there. We drink water from there, we go hunting there, we go swimming there. We go mad for swimming. We go there aer school or sometimes we run away from school to go swimming. The station manager is coming looking for us. We come here for fishing with family. My mum always said “All kids, let’s go fishing!”
 
This the dam now. We wash our clothes here, doing black fella way, get him with our hand (moons washing clothes by hand). We go have our little creek. We got a creek this one. We get a big mob lizard, we cook him right there. When we get thirsty we go to that dam. We come from hunting and fishing and camp here. Cook up kangaroo and fish and bush tucker. Mum and dad would cut the sugar bag [edible botanical gum] from the tree.”
 
- Maggie Green
 
This work depicts the dam located within Myroodah Station, a sheep and cattle station in the West Kimberley region where Maggie was born and grew up. This was a central site in Maggie’s youth, representing a multitude of uses and the location of many of her childhood memories. Here she drank water, hunted for and cooked bush tucker, swam, washed her clothes, and camped with her mother and father.