MARLENE ANDERSON

BORN 1974, near Wiluna LIVES & WORKS Jigalong

LANGUAGE GROUP Manyjilyjarra

SKIN GROUP Purungu

“I paint all the different colours I see out in Country. I like to paint about all the bush foods and wildflowers. We go out getting honey ants and bush potatoes from the ground and bush bananas on a tree, hunting for goanna. I work with KJ (local ranger group, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa), take the kids out Country, out in the bush. ‘Kids on Country’ we call it. When they go out and see the countryside and the bush, makes them feel a bit happy and like they want to go out more and more. I help take them out to track a goanna, take them right up to the hole and they dig it out.

It’s important for them to learn the traditions from their old people so they can be proud of themselves.”

$1325

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