SHAILYN MOSQUITO PERIS

BORN Kununurra LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community LANGUAGE GROUP Daguragu, Gija

“110 k’s per hour through the Kimberley in the wet season; storms, so many colours, and a lot of rain.”

100 kph, 2023 acrylic and ochres on canvas

$420

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BORN Baluwah | Violet Valley

LIVES & WORKS Warmun Community

LANGUAGE GROUP Gija

A fourth generation Warmun artist, Tatum first started painting in 2021 and likes to paint the stories that she has learnt from her grandmother Shirley and mother Madeline. These are stories from Guda Guda Country and they depict the Country, the history and the Ngarranggarni (Dreaming) from that place.

Tatum started painting the ant hills as its a big part of the Kimberly region but it also has alot of meaning to her and her family; her ancestors were placed in ant hills when they passed away. Her Jaru family believe ant hills are for healing, you get rubbed down with the ant hill, and after you wash it off you feel refreshed, it takes away sickness and bad luck.

Her work Kilkayi Barramundi Dreaming depicts the story of three women trying to trap Dayiwul the great barramundi with spinifex nets. Dayiwul was too clever, so the women gave up and walked to a place called Gawinyji where they turned into rocks. The scales of Dayiwul embedded in the rock, became the diamonds that are extracted from the Argyle Diamond Mine.

REV23-212

$950

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