Wurmala - Andrea Pindan, 2019 Joseph Quilty

Wurmala - Andrea Pindan, 2019 Joseph QuiltyThis is my grandfather's country We use to camp around this waterhole My mother and father took me away as a little girl, after my older brother died. .(Sweet Bush Tomato) This warla (lake) country. My Grandmother's and her people's country. Most of the women and kids will walk over the sandhills together to gather up this bush food after the cold weather. They carry them back to where they live. Older women will carry them in coolamon on their heads.

This painting is all about bush food in my country in the goldfield when we go out hunting we all way get bush tucker take them back to the dinner camp and have a good feed

80 x 95cm

particularly the eucalypts

But thats another story

This is the dry season

From the gumtree

In the foreground are young Turtujarti trees

spear grass

We dug the jila (soak water or underground water) and the water rose to surface and 4 butterflies came

new experiences of cultural relations

This is where the river meets the billabong

This is my great great grandmother and grandfather's country called Jupurr