ROSELLA NAMOK - COUPLES
ROSELLA NAMOK
COUPLES, 2012
89x57cm
Synthetic polymer on Belgian linen
REGION
Lockhart River, QLD
PROVENANCE
Direct from the Artist, QLD
Cooee Art Leven Gallery, Sydney NSW
STORY
From before-time … san'beach people … we talk in the sand. Today-now … those old girls … you go out camping with one or two of them old girls … sit down round the fire … they just yarn 'bout before-time. They go yarn and draw in the sand. They know everything from before-time. They know family ways … how you're related … which family side you're from … who you can go with. They know country for everyone too … land country … sea country. They yarn for we'pla young ones … so we understand …want us to know … we'll have to yarn for our kids and grandkids. Those old girls … they sit there on san'beach … draw in the sand to show us young ones … we got to understand.
EXHIBITED
June-September, 2012, 'Big Country: Australian Aboriginal Art Coast to Coast', Jeffrey Moose Gallery Seattle USA
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